Rocketry Dates and Ships

Question 1

Most asteroids travel in orbit between which two planets?

Answer 1

Mars and Jupiter

Question 2

In what year was the first US satellite successfully launched into orbit around the Earth?

Answer 2

1958

Question 3

What was the name of the first US satellite successfully launched into orbit around the Earth?

Answer 3

Explorer I

Question 4

When was the first satellite sent into space?

Answer 4

1957

Question 5

What was the name of the first satellite sent into space?

Answer 5

Sputnik I

Question 6

What rocket was used to launch the first manned Apollo mission, Apollo 7?

Answer 6

Saturn IB

Question 7

Who developed a technique called spin stabilization?

Answer 7

William Hale

Question 8

The approximate daily dosage of radiation on the International Space Station is equivalent to how many chest x-rays?

Answer 8

About 8

Question 9

Who was the first American to orbit the Earth?

Answer 9

John Glenn

Question 10

What is the most widely accepted altitude where space begins?

Answer 10

62 miles

Question 11

When does NASA say space starts?

Answer 11

50 miles

Question 12

Who is known as the “Father of Modern Astronautics”?

Answer 12

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Question 13

For what does GNSS stand?

Answer 13

Global Navigation Satellite System

Question 14

What was the name of the first joint international space mission that took place in 1975? This involved the linkup in space of American and Soviet manned spacecraft.

Answer 14

Apollo Soyuz

Question 15

Which of the following is NOT true regarding cumulus clouds?

Answer 15

They are high in the sky

Question 16

How long is a nautical mile?

Answer 16

6,076

Question 17

What is the name of the company that won the Ansari X-Prize?

Answer 17

Scaled Composites

Question 18

While GPS has many uses, it was primarily developed for which of the following purposes?

Answer 18

To enhance the military and allied forces

Question 19

What is standard pressure?

Answer 19

29.92 in of mercury

Question 20

What term is defined as the tendency of an object at rest to stay at rest and an object in motion to stay in motion?

Answer 20

Inertia

Question 21

What rocket was used to launch Gemini missions in 1965 and 1966?

Answer 21

Titan II

Question 22

What term describes spacecraft that fly by, orbit, or land on a celestial body other than Earth?

Answer 22

Space probes

Question 23

What is one significant way that the Gemini missions paved the way for Apollo missions?

Answer 23

They demonstrated rendezvous and docking procedures

Question 24

What was the name of Alan Shepard’s Mercury space capsule?

Answer 24

Freedom 7

Question 25

What rocket was used to launch Skylab into space?

Answer 25

Titan II

Question 26

When was the first weather satellite sent into space?

Answer 26

1960

Question 27

What was the name of the first weather satellite?

Answer 27

TIROS I

Question 28

when was the first communication satellite sent into space?

Answer 28

1962

Question 29

What was the name of the first communication satellite?

Answer 29

TELSTAR

Question 30

Which of the following was NOT a rocket launch vehicle workhorse for America's early space program?

Answer 30

Vanguard

Question 31

Which of the following space shuttle orbiters did NOT fly in space?

Answer 31

Anything OTHER THAN Columbia, Challenger Endeavour, Discovery, or Atlantis

Question 32

What will the remaining core of a supernova become?

Answer 32

A neutron star or black hole

Question 33

Which series of space probes flew by Venus and Mercury and gave us clear pictures of Venus' clouds and Mercury's cratered surface?

Answer 33

Mariners

Question 34

In order to stay in orbit around the Earth, an object must be at an altitude of at least how many miles?

Answer 34

80-90 Miles

Question 35

What is the shape of the galaxy we live in?

Answer 35

Spiral

Question 36

What magnitude indicates the brightest shining star?

Answer 36

The lowest number

Question 37

What United States space program served our country for 30 years (1981-2011)?

Answer 37

The space transportation system/ the space shuttle program

Question 38

What classification of stars has the highest temperature?

Answer 38

O

Question 39

How long did America's first manned space flight last?

Answer 39

15 minutes

Question 40

According to the heliocentric theory, what was the center of the universe around which the rest of the universe revolved?

Answer 40

The Sun

Question 41

Which of the following is NOT true about solar eclipses?

Answer 41

They occur during daylight hours when the Sun moves directly between the Moon and the Earth

Question 42

What was the first true powered flight with humans on board?

Answer 42

The Hot Air Balloon

Question 43

Who created the hot air balloon?

Answer 43

The Montgolfier Brothers

Question 44

Who was the first man in space and to orbit the earth?

Answer 44

Yuri Gagarin

Question 44

What is it called when the satellite talks to the ground?

Answer 44

Telemetry

Question 45

Who proposed the exploration of space by rocket?

Answer 45

Konstatin Tsiolkovsky

Question 46

What was the name of the jet-powered car that broke the sound barrier in 1997?

Answer 46

Thrust SSC

Question 47

Who drove the jet-powered car that broke the sound barrier in 1997?

Answer 47

Andy Green

Question 48

What is the heliocentric theory?

Answer 48

It is a theory that places the Sun at the center of the universe.

Question 49

What is the part of the sun that gives off light?

Answer 49

Photosphere

Question 50

A launch vehicle gives the spacecraft enough force to reach____?

Answer 50

orbit

Question 51

What is the temperature in Fahrenheit if the Celsius temperature is 30 degrees?

Answer 51

86 degrees

Question 52

What American-based, British-owned commercial spaceflight company offers tourists the opportunity to experience a suborbital flight aboard SpaceShipTwo (also known as the VSS Enterprise)?

Answer 52

Virgin Galactic or Scaled Composites

Question 53

If the Sun were hollow, about how many Earth's would fit inside it?

Answer 53

one million

Question 54

Dr. Robert Goddard is known as which of the following?

Answer 54

Father of Modern Rocketry

Question 55

In what year was the first US satellite successfully launched into orbit around the Earth?

Answer 55

1958

Question 56

If a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere, it is called a (an) ____?

Answer 56

Meteor

Question 57

In April 1990, what did Discovery deploy?

Answer 57

Hubble space Telescope

Question 57

Finding out if a human could survive space travel was part of the mission for which US manned spaceflight program?

Answer 57

Mercury

Question 58

Astronaut wings are awarded to anyone who reaches what minimum altitude?

Answer 58

50 miles

Question 59

In the 1970's, the Pioneer probes and the Voyager probes provided pictures and data for which two planets?

Answer 59

Saturn and Jupiter

Question 60

What causes Jupiter to emit 70% more heat than it absorbs from the Sun?

Answer 60

Highly compressed hydrogen at its core

Question 61

Who was the first American astronaut in space?

Answer 61

Alan Shepard

Question 62

What are the Van Allen Belts?

Answer 62

radiation belts around the Earth filled with charged particles

Question 63

What was the duration of the last and longest manned mission to Skylab?

Answer 63

84 days

Question 64

Which satellite gave us our first photograph of Earth from space?

Answer 64

Explorer 6

Question 65

Who led the development of the first successful Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile in August 1957?

Answer 65

Sergei Korolev

Question 66

Which of the following occurred in the Gemini Program?

Answer 66

The first spacewalk

Question 67

How many miles is 1 Astronomical Unit?

Answer 67

93 million miles

Question 68

What are the two twin planets

Answer 68

Uranus and Neptune; Earth and Venus