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
What was the missle that the Germans used to bomb the Allies in WWII?
V2
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 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 Glenn
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 mission reached the moon?
]What rocket reached the moon, for double click]
Apollo 11
Saturn 5
200
Identify two Bohr models from the board.
oxygen, hydrogen, water, carbon
200
Less fuel is required to reach escape velocity from the Moon or from Mars, because they have less __ than Earth.
gravity (mass)
300
What astronaut first landed on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
300
If a rocket travels less than 8 km/sec., it will:
fall back to Earth
300
What is the name of the first artificial satellite?
Sputnik 1
300
Which equation shows the reaction that takes rockets off the ground?
#2
300
Look at the three equations. What is the reactant for the electrolysis of water?
2 H2O
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 is the speed we call escape velocity?
11 km/s OR 21,000 mph
400
Identify all 4 equations from the board.
oxygen, hydrogen, water, carbon
400
How is the X37B like and unlike the Space Shuttle?
It is smaller but takes off and lands like the shuttle.
500
Who first proposed that rockets could take people into space and proved that rockets could produce enough force to reach outer space?
Konstantin Tsiolkosky
500
How fast must an object travel to reach orbital velocity?
8 km/s OR 17895.5 (18,000 mph)
500
What is the X-37B?
the new Space Plane
500
Using the Periodic Table, find how many protons (and electrons) are in Oxygen?