CAP Billy Mitchell Aerospace Test Questions with correct
|| || || || || || || ||
detailed answers ||
What rocket was used to launch the first manned Apollo mission, Apollo 7? - correct
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
answer✔✔Saturn IB ||
Who developed a technique called spin stabilization? - correct answer✔✔William Hale
|| || || || || || || || || ||
What US manned space program was the first to use a two man capsule? - correct
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
answer✔✔Gemini
The approximate daily dosage of radiation on the International Space Station is equivalent
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
to how many chest x-rays? - correct answer✔✔About 8
|| || || || || || || ||
Who was the first American to orbit the Earth? - correct answer✔✔John Glenn
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
What is the most widely accepted altitude where space begins? - correct answer✔✔62 miles
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Who is known as the "Father or Modern Astronautics"? - correct answer✔✔Konstantin
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
Tsiolkovsky
What does Newton's third law of motion state? - correct answer✔✔For every action, there is
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
an equal and opposite reaction
|| || || || ||
For what does GNSS stand? - correct answer✔✔Global Navigation Satellite System
|| || || || || || || || || ||
,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. - correct
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
answer✔✔Apollo-Soyuz
Which of the following is NOT true regarding cumulus clouds? - correct answer✔✔They
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
are high in the sky
|| || || ||
A nautical mile is longer that a statute mile and is equal to how many feet? - correct
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
answer✔✔6,076 feet ||
What is the name of the company that won the Ansari X-Prize - correct answer✔✔Scaled
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Composites
While GPS has many uses, it was primarily developed for which of the following purposes? -
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
correct answer✔✔To enhance the effectiveness of US and allied military forces
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
What is the standard pressure? - correct answer✔✔29.92 inches of mercury
|| || || || || || || || || ||
What term is defined as the tendency of an object at rest to stay at rest and an object in
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
motion to stay in motion? - correct answer✔✔Inertia
|| || || || || || ||
What rocket was used to launch Gemini missions in 1965 and 1966 - correct
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
answer✔✔Titan II ||
What term describes spacecraft that fly by, orbit, or land on a celestial body other than
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Earth? - correct answer✔✔Space probes
|| || || ||
What is one significant way that the Gemini missions paved the way for Apollo missions? -
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
correct answer✔✔They demonstrated rendezvous and docking procedures
|| || || || || ||
, What was the name of Alan Shepard's Mercury space capsule? - correct answer✔✔Freedom
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
7
||
What rocket was used to launch Skylab into space? - correct answer✔✔Titan II
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
What was the first weather satellite? What was its name? - correct answer✔✔1960; TIROS I
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
What was the first communication satellite? What was its name? - correct answer✔✔1962;
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
TELSTAR
When was the first satellite sent into space? What was its name? - correct answer✔✔1957;
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Sputnik I ||
In what year was the first US satellite successfully launched into orbit around the Earth?
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
What was its name? - correct answer✔✔1958; Explorer I
|| || || || || || || ||
Most asteroids travel in orbit between which two planets? - correct answer✔✔Mars and
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Jupiter
Which of the following was NOT a rocket launch vehicle workhorse for America's early
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
space program? - correct answer✔✔Vanguard
|| || || ||
Which of the following space shuttle orbiters did NOT fly in space? - correct
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
answer✔✔Anything OTHER THAN Columbia, Challenger Endeavour, Discovery, or || || || || || || || ||
Atlantis
|| || || || || || || ||
detailed answers ||
What rocket was used to launch the first manned Apollo mission, Apollo 7? - correct
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
answer✔✔Saturn IB ||
Who developed a technique called spin stabilization? - correct answer✔✔William Hale
|| || || || || || || || || ||
What US manned space program was the first to use a two man capsule? - correct
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
answer✔✔Gemini
The approximate daily dosage of radiation on the International Space Station is equivalent
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
to how many chest x-rays? - correct answer✔✔About 8
|| || || || || || || ||
Who was the first American to orbit the Earth? - correct answer✔✔John Glenn
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
What is the most widely accepted altitude where space begins? - correct answer✔✔62 miles
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Who is known as the "Father or Modern Astronautics"? - correct answer✔✔Konstantin
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
Tsiolkovsky
What does Newton's third law of motion state? - correct answer✔✔For every action, there is
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
an equal and opposite reaction
|| || || || ||
For what does GNSS stand? - correct answer✔✔Global Navigation Satellite System
|| || || || || || || || || ||
,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. - correct
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
answer✔✔Apollo-Soyuz
Which of the following is NOT true regarding cumulus clouds? - correct answer✔✔They
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
are high in the sky
|| || || ||
A nautical mile is longer that a statute mile and is equal to how many feet? - correct
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
answer✔✔6,076 feet ||
What is the name of the company that won the Ansari X-Prize - correct answer✔✔Scaled
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Composites
While GPS has many uses, it was primarily developed for which of the following purposes? -
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
correct answer✔✔To enhance the effectiveness of US and allied military forces
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
What is the standard pressure? - correct answer✔✔29.92 inches of mercury
|| || || || || || || || || ||
What term is defined as the tendency of an object at rest to stay at rest and an object in
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
motion to stay in motion? - correct answer✔✔Inertia
|| || || || || || ||
What rocket was used to launch Gemini missions in 1965 and 1966 - correct
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
answer✔✔Titan II ||
What term describes spacecraft that fly by, orbit, or land on a celestial body other than
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Earth? - correct answer✔✔Space probes
|| || || ||
What is one significant way that the Gemini missions paved the way for Apollo missions? -
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
correct answer✔✔They demonstrated rendezvous and docking procedures
|| || || || || ||
, What was the name of Alan Shepard's Mercury space capsule? - correct answer✔✔Freedom
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
7
||
What rocket was used to launch Skylab into space? - correct answer✔✔Titan II
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
What was the first weather satellite? What was its name? - correct answer✔✔1960; TIROS I
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
What was the first communication satellite? What was its name? - correct answer✔✔1962;
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
TELSTAR
When was the first satellite sent into space? What was its name? - correct answer✔✔1957;
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Sputnik I ||
In what year was the first US satellite successfully launched into orbit around the Earth?
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
What was its name? - correct answer✔✔1958; Explorer I
|| || || || || || || ||
Most asteroids travel in orbit between which two planets? - correct answer✔✔Mars and
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Jupiter
Which of the following was NOT a rocket launch vehicle workhorse for America's early
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
space program? - correct answer✔✔Vanguard
|| || || ||
Which of the following space shuttle orbiters did NOT fly in space? - correct
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
answer✔✔Anything OTHER THAN Columbia, Challenger Endeavour, Discovery, or || || || || || || || ||
Atlantis
