Rocket Science Basics
Rockets operate based on the principle that every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
What is this Principle?
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion
This country is credited with the first rockets in 1200AD
What is China
-Battle of Kai-Fung-Fu in 1232 A.D
This was the first artificial satellite launched in 1957.
What is Sputnik?
This U.S. space agency oversees most American rocket launches.
What is this agency?
What is N.A.S.A
Rockets rely on this force to move and escape the atmosphere.
What is this force?
What is thrust
What are the 2 types of Rockets?
What are Liquid-Fuel and Solid-Fuel Rockets
Which revolutionary Chinese technology significantly influenced the development of Rockets up to the early 19th century?
What is gunpowder
This heavy-lift rocket carried astronauts to the Moon during the Apollo missions.
What is this rocket?
What is the Saturn V
Who are the three biggest and most prominent private space companies leading the modern space race?
What are SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic
Rockets operate based on the principle that every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
What is this Principle?
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion
Which part of a rocket is usually the biggest?
-think function
What is the Propellant Tank
What was the first space station?
What was Salyut 1 (1971)
This program included all the Moon missions by NASA in the 1960s–70s.
What was this program?
What is the Apollo Program
This private company developed the reusable Falcon 9 rocket. (Hint -rocket is reusable))
What is this Rocket?
What is the Falcon 9
For a rocket to lift off, thrust must be greater than this force.
What is this force?
What is gravity(mass)
In liquid rockets, these two substances combine to create combustion and thrust.
What are these substances?
What are fuel and oxidizer
This American Scientist is considered the "father of modern rocketry".
Who is this Scientist?
Dr. Robert H. Goddard
(one of your cadet heroes)
What was the Gemini program?
-explain
A: The main goal of the Gemini program was to bridge the gap between the Mercury and Apollo programs by developing and perfecting the critical spaceflight techniques necessary for a lunar landing.
What NASA launch site in Florida hosts the most US crewed launches?
(Historic place)
What is the Kennedy Space Center?
This velocity explains the precise speed an object (like a satellite or planet) must travel to maintain a stable path around a larger body, balancing gravitational pull with inertial motion.
What is this velocity?
What is orbital velocity
This equation, created by a Russian mathematician, relates rocket velocity change to exhaust velocity and mass ratio.
What is this equation?
What is the Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation
Which individual was the primary figure who preceded Galileo in developing the heliocentric (Sun-centered) model of the solar system during 1473–1543 AD?
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus
What space probe, launched on September 5, 1977, is the most distant man-made object, currently traveling through interstellar space over 15 billion miles from Earth?
What is Voyager 1
This NASA program aims to return astronauts to the Moon in the 21st century.
What is this NASA program?
What is the Artemis Program
This is the burning of fuel that creates hot gases in a rocket.
What is combustion