Aerospace- CAP Billy Mitchell Module
1-7 Questions with Complete
Solutions.
The Shepherd rocket - Answer As part of commercial space travel, Virgin Galactic offers
paying passenger trips to space aboard what space vehicle?
The vertical speed indicator - Answer What senses changes in air pressure and gives the pilot
a rate of climb?
Due to loss of service module cryogenic oxygen - Answer 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 -
Answer What is true about solar eclipses?
Jean Froissart - Answer In France, whose idea of launching rockets through tubes became the
forerunner of the bazooka?
Nacelle - Answer A wing-mounted airplane engine is often covered with a streamlined
enclosure called a
Uranus and Neptune - Answer What two planets are so similar that they are called the twin
planets?
locates natural resources and monitors conditions on the Earth's surface - Answer What is a
mission of a LANDSAT?
Air flows faster over the top of the wing and slower underneath - Answer How does
Bernoulli's principle affect the design of airplane wings?
Cumulus Nimbus clouds indicate good weather - Answer What is NOT true regarding cumulus
clouds?
Earth is the center of the Universe - Answer What is the geocentric theory?
80-90 miles - Answer In order to stay in orbit around Earth, an object must be at an altitude
of at least how many miles?
, Mojave Aerospace Ventures - Answer What is the name of the company that won the Ansari
X-Prize
1.15 mph - Answer One knot is equivalent to how many miles per hour?
The equator - Answer During a fall or spring equinox, what area of Earth receives the most
direct sunlight?
The Mission Controllers - Answer 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 - Answer What is NOT true about Mars
Satellite control system (SCS) - Answer What kind of system is the command-and-control
function of a satellite?
Galileo Galilei - Answer What astronomer first used the term "satellites" to describe the
moons of Jupiter that he could see?
An altitude of 100 km (62 miles) - Answer Space, as described by the Air Force and NASA,
begins at an altitude of _____ miles.
Tsiolkovsky - Answer Who is known as the "Father of Modern Astronautics"?
50% - Answer 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 - Answer Why does the planet
Uranus have 42 years of daylight followed by 42 years of night?
Apollo-Soyuz - Answer 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 - Answer 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?
1-7 Questions with Complete
Solutions.
The Shepherd rocket - Answer As part of commercial space travel, Virgin Galactic offers
paying passenger trips to space aboard what space vehicle?
The vertical speed indicator - Answer What senses changes in air pressure and gives the pilot
a rate of climb?
Due to loss of service module cryogenic oxygen - Answer 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 -
Answer What is true about solar eclipses?
Jean Froissart - Answer In France, whose idea of launching rockets through tubes became the
forerunner of the bazooka?
Nacelle - Answer A wing-mounted airplane engine is often covered with a streamlined
enclosure called a
Uranus and Neptune - Answer What two planets are so similar that they are called the twin
planets?
locates natural resources and monitors conditions on the Earth's surface - Answer What is a
mission of a LANDSAT?
Air flows faster over the top of the wing and slower underneath - Answer How does
Bernoulli's principle affect the design of airplane wings?
Cumulus Nimbus clouds indicate good weather - Answer What is NOT true regarding cumulus
clouds?
Earth is the center of the Universe - Answer What is the geocentric theory?
80-90 miles - Answer In order to stay in orbit around Earth, an object must be at an altitude
of at least how many miles?
, Mojave Aerospace Ventures - Answer What is the name of the company that won the Ansari
X-Prize
1.15 mph - Answer One knot is equivalent to how many miles per hour?
The equator - Answer During a fall or spring equinox, what area of Earth receives the most
direct sunlight?
The Mission Controllers - Answer 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 - Answer What is NOT true about Mars
Satellite control system (SCS) - Answer What kind of system is the command-and-control
function of a satellite?
Galileo Galilei - Answer What astronomer first used the term "satellites" to describe the
moons of Jupiter that he could see?
An altitude of 100 km (62 miles) - Answer Space, as described by the Air Force and NASA,
begins at an altitude of _____ miles.
Tsiolkovsky - Answer Who is known as the "Father of Modern Astronautics"?
50% - Answer 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 - Answer Why does the planet
Uranus have 42 years of daylight followed by 42 years of night?
Apollo-Soyuz - Answer 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 - Answer 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?
