History
What is NASA?
The year engineers began working on designing a shuttle.
What is 1972?
An airplane
The material used to make airplanes and space shuttle.
What is aluminum?
7 People
$375 million
How much a single rocket costs in 1960?
1981
What is the year the first space shuttle launched?
Needed to get through the stratosphere.
What was an outside rocket system?
The first person to discover gravity.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
John W. Young and Robert L. Crippen
When fuel is burned, it turns into gas and expands. As the gas escapes is pushes the rocket forward.
What is thrust?
The part of the shuttle that helps burn fuel.
What is the oxidizer?
materials change shape in intense heat.
The only part of the shuttle that is launched into space.
What is the orbiter?
ISS
What is the largest object ever flown in space?
He was the first man in space.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
Used to practice controlling the shuttle.
What is a flight simulators?
Meteors are found here.
What is the mesosphere?
The length of the shuttle.
What is 56 meters long.
Columbia
What is the first shuttle to fly in space?
The year the first satellite was put into orbit.
What is 1957?
All the things the Engineers had to think about when designing the shuttle.
What is strong enough to survive a launch; light enough to fly; big enough to live on.
Is about 120 degrees Celcius.
They are tall, skinny rockets on both sides of the orbiter.
What are the solid rocket boosters?
air chamber
What part of the shuttle is used to enter and exit the shuttle?