Upper stages can be added as needed to this "base rocket".
What is the R-7?
100
This launch vehicle was America’s answer to the R-7 and Sputnik.
What was the Delta rocket?
100
launches from the equator take advantage of this natural phenomenon.
What is earth's rotational speed?
100
The Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, is suitable only for this type of launch orbit.
What is a low inclination orbit?
200
This rocket pioneer developed the technique of launching rockets from ships.
Who was William Congreve?
200
This launch vehicle is the Russians largest.
What is the Proton?
200
This type of missile was the first to be stored in a hardened underground silo.
What is the Titan missile?
200
A spacecraft’s parts are put together and tested in this place that is not normally a description of a teenager's living space.
What is a "clean room"?
200
NASA refers to the phase of mating the spacecraft with the launch vehicle as this.
What is launch vehicle integration?
300
He was the first "rocket man" to use liquid rocket propellant and developed a gyroscope system to control his rockets.
Who was Robert Goddard?
300
This launch vehicle is still used today to get cosmonauts and astronauts to the International Space Station.
What is Soyuz?
300
This was the largest rocket ever made and it was used to launch the vehicle for the Apollo space program.
What is the Saturn Five (V)?
300
NASA engineers do this about three months before a launch.
What is transfer the spacecraft and launch vehicle to the launch site?
300
It's NASA's official name for the Space Shuttle.
What is the Space Transportation System (STS)?
400
William Hale used these to improve the accuracy of his rockets.
What were spin stabilizers?
400
This was the first satellite to be launched and put into orbit around the earth.
What was Sputnik I?
400
This vehicle launched Galileo, Magellan, and Ulysses.
What is the Space Transportation System (STS)?
400
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It's approximately this amount of time before the launch that the countdown starts.
What is ???
400
The acronym "NASA" stands for this.
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration?
500
He was known as "the father of astronautics".
Who was Konstantin Tsiolkovsky?
500
This launch vehicle was the first to put a human being into space.
What was the Voskhod I?
500
This vehicle is planned to replace the Space Shuttle for human spaceflight, if approved.
What is the Ares I?
500
This type of mission doesn’t benefit from an equator launch.
What is a missions headed for a high-inclination Earth orbit?
500
These are the three tasks that NASA officials complete during the final launch hold period.
What are:
1. Determine the final launch window?
2. Activate the flight recorders?
3. Conduct the final “go/no-go” launch polls and decide whether to launch?