History of Rocket
Rocket Science
Types of Rockets
Propulsion
Vocab.
100
Archytas
Who built the first rocket?
100
f=ma
What is the force equal?
100
Nose, hollow pressure tube, and fins.
What is the structural layout of an air rocket from top to bottom?
100
A substance that includes oxygen to aid combustion.
What is oxidizer?
100
The specific timeframe during which a launch can take place.
What is launch window?
200
The Chinese
Who is credited with developing the first practical chemical-fueled rocket?
200
the amount of matter that is shot out of the engine-usually gases from combustion.
What is mass?
200
Because it is 800 times heavier.
What is the reason water expelles more thrust than air?
200
By mixing and then packing fuel and oxidizer together into the rocket's body.
How are solid propellant rocket engines made?
200
The thin metal cover, or nose cone, that protects a spacecraft and upper stages during a launch when aerodynamic forces can batter the rocket.
What is payload shroud?
300
Sputnik 1
What is the first rocket that successfully launched into space?
300
Newton's third law.
What gives additional insight into how rockets work?
300
The bottle rocket's weight varies during the flight because of the exhaustion water plume.
What is the difference in flight between water rockets and compressed air rockets?
300
The fuel is ignited from the top and burns along the entire length of a central shaft.
How is the fuel in a solid propellant rocket ignited and what is the path it takes as it burns?
300
Assembly, test, and launch operations.
What does ALTO mean?
400
Vostok 1
What is the first rocket that sent a human into orbit?
400
How much force must be applied to a mass to accelerate that mass to speeds that will allow it to reach space and fall back to Earth, put it into orbit, or have it leave Earth's orbit completely.
What is the one basic quetion rocket designers are faced with?
400
It can only be used once.
What is the downside of solid-fuel engine?
400
Because there is nothing to stop the burning of the fuel in the rocket.
Why can a solid propellant rocket be stopped once it is ignited?
400
A workspace with a constant temperature and humidity and low levels of contaminants such as dust.
What is a clean room?
500
WAC Corporal
what is the second stage rocket that the army tested in the V-2 rockets in the late 1940's?
500
Acceleration is a change in motion, which can be a speeding up, a slowing down, or a change in direction.
What is acceleration?
500
Full-scale boosters.
What is the other rocket that is in the same league as the German V-2 space shuttle and delta boosters.
500
24 miles.
How far above Earth's surface can a solid rocket booster lift a shuttle?
500
A missile designed to deliver a payload to another spot on Earth several thousand miles away.
What is interconitinental ballistic missile?
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