Aerospace

Ranks

100

First National Commander of Civil Air Patrol

John Curry

200

First woman to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic

Amelia Earhart

300

Their flight school trained the first African American military pilots

Willa Brown

400

Proved the airplane could sink ships

Billy Mitchell

500

Advocate of strategic bombardment during World War II

Ira Eaker

Rocketry

100

Created 3 laws of motion that would have a direct impact on the development of rocketry

Sir Isaac Newton

200

German rocket scientist behind the V2 rocket

Wernher von Braun

300

The highest point in the flight of a model rocket

Apogee

400

The three stages of CAP's model rocketry program

Redstone, Titan, Saturn

500

Worked with Wernher von Braun, published The Rocket into Interplanetary Space

Hermann Oberth

History

100

First plane flown by Charles Lindbergh solo, non-stop across the Atlantic

The Spirit of Saint Louis

200

Country where the rocketry began through the invention of gunpowder

China

300

First plane to break the sound barrier

Bell X-1

400

NASA's name before it was NASA

NACA (The National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics)

500

Name four of the Mercury 7 astronauts

Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Gordo Cooper, Wally Schirra, Deke Slayton

Space Firsts

100

First person on the moon

Neil Armstrong

200

First person in space

Юрий Гагарин

300

First American in space

Alan Shepard

400

First woman in space

Валентина Терешкова

500

First person to do a spacewalk

Алексей Леонов

Future

100

Rocket NASA is currently developing to get to Mars

Space Launch System (SLS)

200

Company that launched American astronauts from KSC last month

SpaceX

300

NASA currently pays Roscosmos for seats on which Russian spacecraft?

Союз

400

Capsule developed by SpaceX to be launched on Falcon rocket

Crew Dragon

500

A lunar-orbiting space station planned with cooperation between NASA and Roscosmos

Deep Space Gateway