Aerospace Dimensions #4 Study Questions

__________ developed the first rocket engine. a. Archytas b. Hero c. Daedalus d. Plato

The _______ came up with a solid-propellant rocket in 1232 AD that contained a tube, capped at one end, and containing gunpowder that they used as arrows of flying fire in war. a. Chinese b. Greeks c. Romans d. Mongols

_____________ developed his laws of motion in the latter part of the 17th century. a. Roger Bacon b. Jean Froissart c. William Hale d. Sir Isaac Newton

_______________ has been called the father of modern astronautics due to his ideas, research and vision in proposing the idea of space exploration by a rocket. a. Tsiolkovsky b. Goddard c. Newton d. Oberth

Because of a book about rocket travel into outer space, ____________ caused small rocket societies to get started around the world. a. Robert Goddard b. Wernher von Braun c. Sergei Korolev d. Hermann Oberth

_________ was considered the father of the Soviet space program. a. Sergei Korolev b. Yuri Gagarin c. Wernher von Braun d. Hermann Oberth

The first artificial (man-made) satellite, _______________, was launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957. a. Explorer I b. Sputnik I c. Mercury d. Apollo

In 1961, the Russians put the first man into space, Yuri Gagarin, and about a month later the first American, ___________________, went into space. a. Alan Shepard b. John Glenn c. Neil Armstrong d. Scott Carpenter

____________ was the first U.S. space station. a. International Space Station b. Mercury I c. Skylab d. Apollo 7

___________ is the tendency of an object at rest to stay at rest and an object in motion to stay in motion. a. Momentum b. Acceleration c. Mass d. Inertia

Concerning Newton’s First Law of Motion, rest and __________ are the opposite of each other. a. force b. motion c. gravity d. mass

The four systems of modern rockets work together to deliver the __________. a. guidance system b. control c. payload d. airframe

Which part of the rocket is considered the "brain"? a. control b. airframe c. propulsion d. guidance system

A few examples of controls that can help or stabilize a rocket are _______, movable fins, gimbaled nozzles and attitude-control. a. fuel b. casing c. vanes d. pumps

The first space transportation system for traveling to space and back to Earth was the ___________________. a. Space Shuttle b. Skylab c. Apollo d. Mercury