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Air Rockets
What is a rocket that uses compressed-or squeezed-air produced by a pump to thrust the rocket into te air.
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Issac Newton
Whom is the man who developed three laws of motion.
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Magnitude
What is an amount, sie, speed, or degree that can be measured-and a direction
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Structural system
What is a system that simply refers to the frame
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2009
What is the year when NASA's Ares I-X test rocket soared into the blue skies at the Kennedy Space Center
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Bottle Rocket
What is a rocket that is usually made out of a two-liter soda pop bottle for the rocket.
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Newton's second law of motion
What is the law that states :"Force equals mass times acceleration,"?
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Nozzle
What is a rocket's end that releases gas, smoke, and flame to produce thrust
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Payload system
What is a system whos mission determines its system
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Thrusters
What is the thing that launched the Explorer 1 toward space from Cape Canaveral in 1958
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Model Rocket
What is a standard model rocket which has a dozen parts, including fins.
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The third law of motion
What is the stated law: "For every action there is an equl and opposite reaction."
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Oxidizer
What is a substance that includes oxygen to aid combustion?
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Guidance system
What is a system that rests just below the payload system nd connects to parts elsewhere on the rocket-perhaps including at the bottom or along the slides.
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Recovery wadding
What is inserted between the engine mount and the recovery system to prevent the hot gs of the ejection charge from damaging the recovery system
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Full-Scale Boosters
What is a rocket that is so complex that engineers group their parts into four major systems.
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Newtons first law of motion
What law states: "Objects at rest remain at rest and objects in motion remain i motion in a straight line unless acted upon by an unbalanced force."?
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Thrust
What is an action that sends you forward
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Recovery system
What is the system whos engine mount allows the ejetion charge of the engine to pressurize the body tube at the end of the coasting phase nad eject the nose cone
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Solid Rocket Booster
What is a booster that has enough power to lift a space shuttle 24 miles (38 km) above the Earth
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Structural,payload, guidance, and propulsion
What is the four major systems of a Full-Scale Booster
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f=ma
What is the formula used in Newtons Second Law of Motion?
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Thrust,Lift,Weight,Drag
What are the four unbalanced forces
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Propulsion system
What is a system that takes up at least two-thirds of the rocket
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Leland D. Melvin
Who is the astronaut that picked chemistry as his backup plan after his NFL career ended
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