CAP Billy Mitchell Aerospace EXAM
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1. What rocket was used to launch the first manned Apollo mission, Apollo 7?
- ANSWER ✔ Saturn IB
2. Who developed a technique called spin stabilization? - ANSWER ✔
William Hale
3. What US manned space program was the first to use a two man capsule? -
ANSWER ✔ Gemini
4. The approximate daily dosage of radiation on the International Space Station
is equivalent to how many chest x-rays? - ANSWER ✔ About 8
5. Who was the first American to orbit the Earth? - ANSWER ✔ John Glenn
6. What is the most widely accepted altitude where space begins? - ANSWER
✔ 62 miles
7. Who is known as the "Father or Modern Astronautics"? - ANSWER ✔
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
8. What does Newton's third law of motion state? - ANSWER ✔ For every
action, there is an equal and opposite reaction
,9. For what does GNSS stand? - ANSWER ✔ Global Navigation Satellite
System
10.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. - ANSWER ✔ Apollo-Soyuz
11.Which of the following is NOT true regarding cumulus clouds? - ANSWER
✔ They are high in the sky
12.A nautical mile is longer that a statute mile and is equal to how many feet? -
ANSWER ✔ 6,076 feet
13.What American-based, British-owned commercial spaceflight company
offers tourists the opportunity to experience a suborbital flight aboard
SpaceShipTwo (also known as the VSS Enterprise)? - ANSWER ✔ Virgin
Galactic or Scaled Composites
14.If the Sun were hollow, about how many Earth's would fit inside it? -
ANSWER ✔ One million
15.Dr. Robert Goddard is known as which of the following? - ANSWER ✔
Father of Modern Rocketry
16.In what year was the first US satellite successfully launched into orbit
around the Earth? - ANSWER ✔ 1958
17.If a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere, it is called a (an) ________ . -
ANSWER ✔ Meteor
18.A heading indicator is also known as a... - ANSWER ✔ Directional Gyro
19.Which of the following is NOT true regarding microbursts? - ANSWER ✔
Microbursts usually occur gradually, thus allowing a pilot time to react
20.Which of the following provides energy that caused our atmosphere to move
both horizontally and vertically? - ANSWER ✔ The Sun
,21.What rocket was used to launch the first manned Apollo mission, Apollo 7?
- ANSWER ✔ Saturn IB
22.What temperature scale is based on absolute zero and commonly used by
scientists? - ANSWER ✔ Kelvin
23.Who developed a technique called spin stabilization? - ANSWER ✔
William Hale
24.What is the definition for orbit? - ANSWER ✔ The path a satellite takes
around a celestial body
25.What US manned space program was the first to use a two man capsule? -
ANSWER ✔ Gemini
26.The approximate daily dosage of radiation on the International Space Station
is equivalent to how many chest x-rays? - ANSWER ✔ About 8
27.Who was the first American to orbit the Earth? - ANSWER ✔ John Glenn
28.In July of 2008, which NASA spacecraft confirmed water on Mars? -
ANSWER ✔ Phoenix Lander
29.What is the most widely accepted altitude where space begins? - ANSWER
✔ 62 miles
30.Space, as described by the Air Force and NASA, begins at an altitude of
_______miles. - ANSWER ✔ 76 miles
31.which of the following terms refers to the distance from one solar system to
another - ANSWER ✔ interstellar space
32.small amounts of gravity or low gravity is called - ANSWER ✔
microgravity
33.in what year was the first weather satellite launched - ANSWER ✔ 1960
, 34.Define the internet - ANSWER ✔ a worldwide collection of different
networks connecting millions of devices to allow communication between
them
35.What is the goal of NASA? - ANSWER ✔ Peaceful exploration of space
for the benefit of all humankind
36.The gemeni IV mission was the first american mission in which a spacewalk
occured. Who was the astronaut who performed this spacewalk during the
gemeni IV mission in 1956 - ANSWER ✔ Ed White
37._____ is a broader field that encompasses aspects of cyber security along
with other topics - ANSWER ✔ Computer Science
38.What is the name of the "mothership" responsible for taking SpaceShipTwo
to an altitude of about 50,000 before SpacerShipTwo detaches to rocket into
suborbital space? - ANSWER ✔ WhiteKnightTwo (WK2), or 'Eve'
39.What kind of star has the longest life? - ANSWER ✔ a cooler, low mass
star
40.Which two planets are so similar they are called twin planets - ANSWER
✔ Uranus & Neptune
41.Which apollo mission resulted in the first lunar landing - ANSWER ✔
Apollo 11
42.Which astronomer first used the term "satellites" to describe the moons of
jupiter that he could see - ANSWER ✔ Johanes Kepler
43.What was project apollos mission - ANSWER ✔ to put an american man
on the moon
44.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
STUDY GUIDE 2026/2027 ACCURATE
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1. What rocket was used to launch the first manned Apollo mission, Apollo 7?
- ANSWER ✔ Saturn IB
2. Who developed a technique called spin stabilization? - ANSWER ✔
William Hale
3. What US manned space program was the first to use a two man capsule? -
ANSWER ✔ Gemini
4. The approximate daily dosage of radiation on the International Space Station
is equivalent to how many chest x-rays? - ANSWER ✔ About 8
5. Who was the first American to orbit the Earth? - ANSWER ✔ John Glenn
6. What is the most widely accepted altitude where space begins? - ANSWER
✔ 62 miles
7. Who is known as the "Father or Modern Astronautics"? - ANSWER ✔
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
8. What does Newton's third law of motion state? - ANSWER ✔ For every
action, there is an equal and opposite reaction
,9. For what does GNSS stand? - ANSWER ✔ Global Navigation Satellite
System
10.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. - ANSWER ✔ Apollo-Soyuz
11.Which of the following is NOT true regarding cumulus clouds? - ANSWER
✔ They are high in the sky
12.A nautical mile is longer that a statute mile and is equal to how many feet? -
ANSWER ✔ 6,076 feet
13.What American-based, British-owned commercial spaceflight company
offers tourists the opportunity to experience a suborbital flight aboard
SpaceShipTwo (also known as the VSS Enterprise)? - ANSWER ✔ Virgin
Galactic or Scaled Composites
14.If the Sun were hollow, about how many Earth's would fit inside it? -
ANSWER ✔ One million
15.Dr. Robert Goddard is known as which of the following? - ANSWER ✔
Father of Modern Rocketry
16.In what year was the first US satellite successfully launched into orbit
around the Earth? - ANSWER ✔ 1958
17.If a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere, it is called a (an) ________ . -
ANSWER ✔ Meteor
18.A heading indicator is also known as a... - ANSWER ✔ Directional Gyro
19.Which of the following is NOT true regarding microbursts? - ANSWER ✔
Microbursts usually occur gradually, thus allowing a pilot time to react
20.Which of the following provides energy that caused our atmosphere to move
both horizontally and vertically? - ANSWER ✔ The Sun
,21.What rocket was used to launch the first manned Apollo mission, Apollo 7?
- ANSWER ✔ Saturn IB
22.What temperature scale is based on absolute zero and commonly used by
scientists? - ANSWER ✔ Kelvin
23.Who developed a technique called spin stabilization? - ANSWER ✔
William Hale
24.What is the definition for orbit? - ANSWER ✔ The path a satellite takes
around a celestial body
25.What US manned space program was the first to use a two man capsule? -
ANSWER ✔ Gemini
26.The approximate daily dosage of radiation on the International Space Station
is equivalent to how many chest x-rays? - ANSWER ✔ About 8
27.Who was the first American to orbit the Earth? - ANSWER ✔ John Glenn
28.In July of 2008, which NASA spacecraft confirmed water on Mars? -
ANSWER ✔ Phoenix Lander
29.What is the most widely accepted altitude where space begins? - ANSWER
✔ 62 miles
30.Space, as described by the Air Force and NASA, begins at an altitude of
_______miles. - ANSWER ✔ 76 miles
31.which of the following terms refers to the distance from one solar system to
another - ANSWER ✔ interstellar space
32.small amounts of gravity or low gravity is called - ANSWER ✔
microgravity
33.in what year was the first weather satellite launched - ANSWER ✔ 1960
, 34.Define the internet - ANSWER ✔ a worldwide collection of different
networks connecting millions of devices to allow communication between
them
35.What is the goal of NASA? - ANSWER ✔ Peaceful exploration of space
for the benefit of all humankind
36.The gemeni IV mission was the first american mission in which a spacewalk
occured. Who was the astronaut who performed this spacewalk during the
gemeni IV mission in 1956 - ANSWER ✔ Ed White
37._____ is a broader field that encompasses aspects of cyber security along
with other topics - ANSWER ✔ Computer Science
38.What is the name of the "mothership" responsible for taking SpaceShipTwo
to an altitude of about 50,000 before SpacerShipTwo detaches to rocket into
suborbital space? - ANSWER ✔ WhiteKnightTwo (WK2), or 'Eve'
39.What kind of star has the longest life? - ANSWER ✔ a cooler, low mass
star
40.Which two planets are so similar they are called twin planets - ANSWER
✔ Uranus & Neptune
41.Which apollo mission resulted in the first lunar landing - ANSWER ✔
Apollo 11
42.Which astronomer first used the term "satellites" to describe the moons of
jupiter that he could see - ANSWER ✔ Johanes Kepler
43.What was project apollos mission - ANSWER ✔ to put an american man
on the moon
44.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
