Who build and tested over 150 American rockets and is called the "father of modern rocketry?"
Robert Goddard
100
Rockets move because the forces on them are ___ _______.
not balanced
100
Where is NASA trying to send astronauts now?
Mars
100
What is the product of equation #1?
Hydrogen
100
In 1958, the U.S. government combined all of the rocket-development teams in the country into one new group called:
NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
200
Who first proposed that rockets could take people into space and proved that rockets could produce enough force to reach outer space?
Konstantin Tsiolkosky
200
Why do rockets need to carry oxygen into outer space?
Oxygen is necessary for combustion and there is none in outer space.
200
What missions reached the moon?
Apollo (beginning with Apollo 11)
200
Hydrogen reacts to oxygen when it burns because hydrogen and oxygen share:
electrons
200
Less fuel is required to reach escape velocity from the Moon or from Mars, because they have less __ than Earth.
gravity (mass)
300
How many German Scientists cam to the U.S after WWII to help improve rocket science during the 1950s?
127
300
To reach orbital velocity, a rocket most travel __.
8 km/s OR 17895.5 (18,000 mph)
300
What Apollo mission almost did not make it back to Earth?
Apollo 13
300
Which equation shows the reaction that takes rockets off the ground?
#2
300
What astronaut first landed on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
400
Who plotted the trajectory of Colonial Glenn's splashdown and gave advice on how to keep his heat shields on?
Katherine Johnson
400
If a rocket travels 11 km/sec, (25,000 mph; 24606.3 mph) it will reach:
escape velocity
400
What was John Glenn's capsule called?
Friendship 7
400
!!DAILY DOUBLE!!
Draw a Bohr model for hydrogen?
400
How is the X37B like and unlike the Space Shuttle?
It is smaller but takes off and lands like the shuttle.
500
Who became the first astronaut to orbit the Earth in his Mercury capsule Friendship 7, reaching speeds of more than 17,000 miles per hour, orbiting 3 times.
John Glen
500
If a rocket travels less than 8 km/sec., it will:
fall back to Earth
500
What is the X-37B?
the new Space Plane
500
Using the Periodic Table, find how many protons (and electrons) are in Oxygen?