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1. What US manned space program was the first to use a two man capsule? -
ANSWER✔️✔️-Gemini
2. The approximate daily dosage of radiation on the International Space Station is
equivalent to how many chest x-rays? - ANSWER✔️✔️-About 8
3. Who was the first American to orbit the Earth? - ANSWER✔️✔️-John Glenn
4. What is the most widely accepted altitude where space begins? - ANSWER✔️✔️-62
miles
5. 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? - Answer✔️Inertia
6. What rocket was used to launch Gemini missions in 1965 and 1966 - Answer✔️Titan II
7. What term describes spacecraft that fly by, orbit, or land on a celestial body other than
earth? - Answer✔️space probes
8. What is one significant way that the Gemini missions paved the way for apollo missions?
- Answer✔️they demonstrated rendezvous and docking procedures
9. What was the first weather satellite? What was its name? - Answer✔️1960;Tiros I
10. What was the first communication satellite? What was its name? - Answer✔️1962;
Telstar
11. When was the first satellite sent into space? What was its name? - Answer✔️1957;
sputnik I
12. In what year was the first us satellite successfully launched into orbit around the earth?
What was its name? - Answer✔️1958; Explorer I
,13. Most asteroids travel in orbit between which two planets? - Answer✔️Mars and Jupiter
14. Which of the following was not a rocket launch vehicle workhorse for America’s early
space program? - Answer✔️Vanguard
15. Which of the following space shuttle orbiters did not fly in space? - Answer✔️anything
other than Columbia, challenger endeavor, discovery, or Atlantis
16. What will the remaining core of a supernova become? - Answer✔️a neutron star or
black hole
17. Which series of space probes flew by Venus and mercury and gave us clear pictures of
Venus' clouds and mercury's cratered surface? - Answer✔️mariners
18. In order to stay in orbit around the earth, an object must be at an altitude of at least how
many miles? - Answer✔️80-90 miles
19. What is the shape of the galaxy in which we live? - Answer✔️spiral
20. What magnitude indicates the brightest shining star? - Answer✔️the lowest number
21. What united states space program served our country for 30 years (1981-2011)? -
Answer✔️space transportation system (STS, also known as the space shuttle
program)
22. What classification of stars has the highest temperature? - Answer✔️o
23. How long did America’s first manned space flight last? - Answer✔️15 minutes
24. Which of the following is not true about solar eclipses? - Answer✔️they occur during
daylight hours when the sun moves directly between the moon and the earth
25. According to the heliocentric theory, what was the center of the universe around which
the rest of the universe revolved? - Answer✔️the sun
26. What was the first true powered flight with humans on board? Who created it? -
Answer✔️hot air balloon; Montgolfier brothers
27. Yuri Gagarin - Answer✔️first man in space and first to orbit the earth
28. Who proposed exploration of space by rocket? - Answer✔️Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
, 29. What is it called when the satellite talks to the ground? - Answer✔️telemetry
30. What was the name of the jet-powered car that broke the sound barrier in 1997? -
Answer✔️thrust SSC
31. What is the heliocentric theory? - Answer✔️it is a theory which placed the sun at the
center of the universe.
32. What is the part of the sun that gives off light? - Answer✔️photosphere
33. A launch vehicle gives the spacecraft enough force to reach ___________. -
Answer✔️orbit
34. What is the temperature in Fahrenheit if the Celsius temperature is 30 degrees? (use the
formula for converting Celsius to Fahrenheit) - Answer✔️86°f
35. What American-based, British-owned commercial spaceflight company offers tourists the
opportunity to experience a suborbital flight aboard spaceship two (also known as the
VSS enterprise)? - Answer✔️virgin galactic or scaled composites
36. If the sun were hollow, about how many earth's would fit inside it? - Answer✔️one
million
37. Dr. Robert Goddard is known as which of the following? - Answer✔️father of modern
rocketry
38. In what year was the first us satellite successfully launched into orbit around the earth? -
Answer✔️1958
39. If a meteoroid enters the earth's atmosphere, it is called a (an) ________ . -
Answer✔️meteor
40. Finding out if a human could survive space travel was part of the mission for which us
manned spaceflight program? - Answer✔️mercury
41. Astronaut wings are awarded to anyone who reaches what minimum altitude? -
Answer✔️50 miles
42. Who was the driver of the jet-powered car that first broke the sound barrier in 1997? -
Answer✔️Andy green
43. In April 1990, what did discovery deploy? - Answer✔️Hubble space telescope