Vostok Program
What was the Vostok Program?
The Vostok program was a Soviet space program project that ran from 1960 to 1963 and achieved many spectacular milestones in spaceflight.
What was Project Mercury?
Project Mercury was the NASA program that put the first American astronauts in space
What was North American X-15?
A rocket-powered research aircraft bridged the gap between manned flight within the atmosphere and manned flight beyond the atmosphere into space.
What was Project Gemini?
Gemini was an early NASA human spaceflight program.
What was the Apollo Program?
A program that was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by NASA.
What was the goal of the Vostok program?
To put the first Soviet citizens into low Earth orbit and return them safely.
Why was Project Mercury named that?
The project was named Mercury after a Roman god who was very fast.
What was the North American X-15 used for?
The X-15 gathered critical flight data that made human spaceflight and future hypersonic aircraft possible.
What was the purpose of Project Gemini?
To test an astronaut's ability to fly long-duration missions
What did the Apollo program do?
The Apollo program was the name of NASA's project to land humans on the moon in the 1960s and early 1970s.
What does Vostok mean in English?
East is what Vostok means in English.
What did Project Mercury prove?
The astronauts and ground teams for the Mercury missions proved that people could fly safely to space and return.
What did the X-15 Accomplish?
The X-15 paved the way for America's piloted space program, setting unofficial world records for flight speed and altitude along the way.
How many astronauts were in the Gemini program?
The Gemini astronauts were sixteen pilots who flew in Project Gemini.
Why did NASA cancel the Apollo program?
The standard answer is that the last three Apollo missions were cancelled for budgetary reasons.
What was the problem with the Vostok 1 spacecraft?
Concerns of adverse reactions to due to experiencing weightlessness
Where was the Mercury program?
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
What altitude did the X-15 reach?
Which Gemini blew up?
Gemini 6 was to have been the first flight involving docking with an Agena target/propulsion stage.
How much does Apollo program cost?
$257 billion.
Who was the first person in space?
Yuri Gagarin
Was Project Mercury a success?
While technically a flight test failure, the mission had the unexpected consequence of successfully demonstrating the Mercury spacecraft abort system under realistic emergency flight conditions.
Could the X-15 go into space?
The X-15 didn't have the capability to get to orbit, and it was never intended to.
What was Gemini 8 mission?
The primary mission objectives were to perform rendezvous and four docking tests with the Agena target vehicle and to execute an ExtraVehicular Activity experiment.
What came out of the Apollo program?
Innovations developed with technology from NASA's Apollo lunar module program have created a renewable energy resource used on Earth and in space.