CAP BILLY MITCHELL AEROSPACE
EXAM MODULE 1-7
The Shepherd rocket - Correct Answers -As part of commercial space travel, Virgin
Galactic offers paying passenger trips to space aboard what space vehicle?
The vertical speed indicator - Correct Answers -What senses changes in air pressure
and gives the pilot a rate of climb?
Due to loss of service module cryogenic oxygen - Correct Answers -Why did Apollo 13
have to abort its landing on the Moon?
occurs during daylight hours when the Moon moves directly between the Sun and the
Earth - Correct Answers -What is true about solar eclipses?
Jean Froissart - Correct Answers -In France, whose idea of launching rockets through
tubes became the forerunner of the bazooka?
Nacelle - Correct Answers -A wing-mounted airplane engine is often covered with a
streamlined enclosure called a
Uranus and Neptune - Correct Answers -What two planets are so similar that they are
called the twin planets?
locates natural resources and monitors conditions on the Earth's surface - Correct
Answers -What is a mission of a LANDSAT?
Air flows faster over the top of the wing and slower underneath - Correct Answers -How
does Bernoulli's principle affect the design of airplane wings?
Cumulus Nimbus clouds indicate good weather - Correct Answers -What is NOT true
regarding cumulus clouds?
Earth is the center of the Universe - Correct Answers -What is the geocentric theory?
80-90 miles - Correct Answers -In order to stay in orbit around Earth, an object must be
at an altitude of at least how many miles?
Mojave Aerospace Ventures - Correct Answers -What is the name of the company that
won the Ansari X-Prize
, 1.15 mph - Correct Answers -One knot is equivalent to how many miles per hour?
The equator - Correct Answers -During a fall or spring equinox, what area of Earth
receives the most direct sunlight?
The Mission Controllers - Correct Answers -Changes can be made, if necessary, to an
unmanned rocket's trajectory provided that the guidance system includes a radio link
between the rocket's guidance system and what/who?
There is not water on Mars - Correct Answers -What is NOT true about Mars
Satellite control system (SCS) - Correct Answers -What kind of system is the command-
and-control function of a satellite?
Galileo Galilei - Correct Answers -What astronomer first used the term "satellites" to
describe the moons of Jupiter that he could see?
An altitude of 100 km (62 miles) - Correct Answers -Space, as described by the Air
Force and NASA, begins at an altitude of _____ miles.
Tsiolkovsky - Correct Answers -Who is known as the "Father of Modern Astronautics"?
50% - Correct Answers -What percentage of all of the atmosphere's air is located below
18,000 feet above sea level?
parts of its orbit one or other of the poles directly face the Sun - Correct Answers -Why
does the planet Uranus have 42 years of daylight followed by 42 years of night?
Apollo-Soyuz - Correct Answers -What was the name of the first joint international
space mission that took place in 1975? This involved the linkup in space of American
and Soviet manned spacecraft.
Cold Front - Correct Answers -What type of front occurs when the air moving into the
area is colder than the present air, causing the heavier, colder air to push the warmer
air up and out of the way?
Radiation - Correct Answers -What word describes the heat energy emitted from the
Sun that is both good and bad?
apparent magnitude - Correct Answers -The measure of the brightness of a star as
viewed from Earth is called
Medium sized and expected to live for billions of years - Correct Answers -What is best
describes our Sun?
EXAM MODULE 1-7
The Shepherd rocket - Correct Answers -As part of commercial space travel, Virgin
Galactic offers paying passenger trips to space aboard what space vehicle?
The vertical speed indicator - Correct Answers -What senses changes in air pressure
and gives the pilot a rate of climb?
Due to loss of service module cryogenic oxygen - Correct Answers -Why did Apollo 13
have to abort its landing on the Moon?
occurs during daylight hours when the Moon moves directly between the Sun and the
Earth - Correct Answers -What is true about solar eclipses?
Jean Froissart - Correct Answers -In France, whose idea of launching rockets through
tubes became the forerunner of the bazooka?
Nacelle - Correct Answers -A wing-mounted airplane engine is often covered with a
streamlined enclosure called a
Uranus and Neptune - Correct Answers -What two planets are so similar that they are
called the twin planets?
locates natural resources and monitors conditions on the Earth's surface - Correct
Answers -What is a mission of a LANDSAT?
Air flows faster over the top of the wing and slower underneath - Correct Answers -How
does Bernoulli's principle affect the design of airplane wings?
Cumulus Nimbus clouds indicate good weather - Correct Answers -What is NOT true
regarding cumulus clouds?
Earth is the center of the Universe - Correct Answers -What is the geocentric theory?
80-90 miles - Correct Answers -In order to stay in orbit around Earth, an object must be
at an altitude of at least how many miles?
Mojave Aerospace Ventures - Correct Answers -What is the name of the company that
won the Ansari X-Prize
, 1.15 mph - Correct Answers -One knot is equivalent to how many miles per hour?
The equator - Correct Answers -During a fall or spring equinox, what area of Earth
receives the most direct sunlight?
The Mission Controllers - Correct Answers -Changes can be made, if necessary, to an
unmanned rocket's trajectory provided that the guidance system includes a radio link
between the rocket's guidance system and what/who?
There is not water on Mars - Correct Answers -What is NOT true about Mars
Satellite control system (SCS) - Correct Answers -What kind of system is the command-
and-control function of a satellite?
Galileo Galilei - Correct Answers -What astronomer first used the term "satellites" to
describe the moons of Jupiter that he could see?
An altitude of 100 km (62 miles) - Correct Answers -Space, as described by the Air
Force and NASA, begins at an altitude of _____ miles.
Tsiolkovsky - Correct Answers -Who is known as the "Father of Modern Astronautics"?
50% - Correct Answers -What percentage of all of the atmosphere's air is located below
18,000 feet above sea level?
parts of its orbit one or other of the poles directly face the Sun - Correct Answers -Why
does the planet Uranus have 42 years of daylight followed by 42 years of night?
Apollo-Soyuz - Correct Answers -What was the name of the first joint international
space mission that took place in 1975? This involved the linkup in space of American
and Soviet manned spacecraft.
Cold Front - Correct Answers -What type of front occurs when the air moving into the
area is colder than the present air, causing the heavier, colder air to push the warmer
air up and out of the way?
Radiation - Correct Answers -What word describes the heat energy emitted from the
Sun that is both good and bad?
apparent magnitude - Correct Answers -The measure of the brightness of a star as
viewed from Earth is called
Medium sized and expected to live for billions of years - Correct Answers -What is best
describes our Sun?
