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A heading indicator is also known as a... ✔✔Directional Gyro
Which of the following is NOT true regarding microbursts? ✔✔Microbursts usually occur gradually, thus allowing a pilot time to react
Which of the following provides energy that caused our atmosphere to move both horizontally and vertically? ✔✔The Sun
What rocket was used to launch the first manned Apollo mission, Apollo 7? ✔✔Saturn IB
What temperature scale is based on absolute zero and commonly used by scientists? ✔✔Kelvin
Who developed a technique called spin stabilization? ✔✔William Hale
What is the definition for orbit? ✔✔The path a satellite takes around a celestial body
What US manned space program was the first to use a two man capsule? ✔✔Gemini
The approximate daily dosage of radiation on the International Space Station is equivalent to how many chest x-rays? ✔✔About 8
Who was the first American to orbit the Earth? ✔✔John Glenn
In July of 2008, which NASA spacecraft confirmed water on Mars? ✔✔Phoenix Lander
What is the most widely accepted altitude where space begins? ✔✔62 miles
What altitude does NASA say space begins? ✔✔76 miles
Which of the following pairs are NOT examples of NASA spinoffs? ✔✔Tang; Velcro
What term is described as a giant dirty snowball composed of frozen gases, water, dust, and icy lumps that sheds itself as it moves, leaving a long tail? ✔✔Comet
What is one problem of operation an engine using a fuel mixture that is too lean? ✔✔The engine runs too hot
The successful mission of which vehicle marked the beginning of military operations in space? ✔✔X-37B (OTV-1) in 2010
Hailey's Comet reappears every _____ years ✔✔ 76
For what does GNSS stand? ✔✔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. ✔✔Apollo-Soyuz
Which of the following is NOT true regarding cumulus clouds? ✔✔They are high in the sky
A nautical mile is longer that a statute mile and is equal to how many feet? ✔✔6,076 feet
What is a star? ✔✔A large body of burning hot gases
In which of the American space programs did American men walk on the moon? ✔✔Apollo Program
What does the planet Uranus have 42 years of daylight followed by 42 years of night? ✔✔Because it is tilted 60 degrees on its axis
What is the name of the company that won the Ansari X-Prize ✔✔Scaled Composites
While GPS has many uses, it was primarily developed for which of the following purposes? ✔✔To enhance the effectiveness of US and allied military forces
How long does it take for Neptune to complete an orbit ✔✔165 years
What is the standard pressure? ✔✔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? ✔✔Inertia
Which spacecraft below is becoming America's military space plane that can be used for space- based surveillance and reconnaissance? ✔✔X-
What was the name of Alan Shepard's Mercury space capsule? ✔✔Freedom 7
Which of the following is a reciprocating engine? ✔✔Internal Combustion Engine
What rocket was used to launch Skylab into space? ✔✔Titan II
What was the first weather satellite? What was its name? ✔✔1960; TIROS I
What was the first communication satellite? What was its name? ✔✔1962; TELSTAR
When was the first satellite sent into space? What was its name? ✔✔1957; Sputnik I
In what year was the first US satellite successfully launched into orbit around the Earth? What was its name? ✔✔1958; Explorer I
Which of the following was NOT part of the criteria to win the Ansari X-Prize? ✔✔The project had a budget limit of two million dollars
Most asteroids travel in orbit between which two planets? ✔✔Mars and Jupiter
Which of the following was NOT a rocket launch vehicle workhorse for America's early space program? ✔✔Vanguard
In the 1920s, the writings of Hermann Oberth, a German rocket pioneer, helped inspire the formation of what? ✔✔Rocket societies
Who developed a technique called spin stabilization? ✔✔William Hale
Which of the following space shuttle orbiters did NOT fly in space? ✔✔Anything OTHER THAN Columbia, Challenger Endeavour, Discovery, or Atlantis
Airspeed is commonly described in what unit of measure? ✔✔Knots
How did Roger Bacon's improvement in the forms of gunpowder in England affect rockets? ✔✔It increased the range of the rocket
Which of the following is true of the International Space Station? ✔✔All of these answers are correct
What rocket was developed solely to send humans to the moon? ✔✔Saturn V
In order to stay in orbit around the Earth, an object must be at an altitude of at least how many miles? ✔✔80-90 miles
Why is Venus referred to as the Evening Star? ✔✔It is the brightest planet that can be seen from Earth
Which of the following is an example of payload? ✔✔All of these answers are correct
What is a cloud of gas and dust where stars may be forming? ✔✔Nebula
Just before takeoff, the pilot sets the ____________ to the local air pressure. ✔✔Altimeter
What term simply refers to a chamber enclosing a gas under pressure? ✔✔Rocket
What is a light year? ✔✔It is the distance light travels in one Earth year, which is a little less than 6 trillion miles
What is the most important element of our solar system? ✔✔The Sun
What is the shape of the galaxy in which we live? ✔✔Spiral
What galaxy shape have an indeterminate shape? ✔✔Irregular
What magnitude indicates the brightest shining star? ✔✔The lowest number
What United States space program served our country for 30 years (1981-2011)? ✔✔Space Transportation System (STS, also known as the Space Shuttle Program)
What classification of stars has the highest temperature? ✔✔O
How does an increase in the angle of attack (that would not result in a stall) affect lift? ✔✔It increases lift
How does the Moon's diameter compare to Earth's diameter? ✔✔The Moon's diameter is about 1/4 the size of the Earth's diameter.
How long did America's first manned space flight last? ✔✔15 minutes
What is the goal of NASA? ✔✔Peaceful exploration of space for the benefit of all humankind
Which of the following is NOT true about solar eclipses? ✔✔They occur during daylight hours when the Sun moves directly between the Moon and the Earth
Which phase of the Moon reveals only a small sliver of the Moon as seen form the Earth? ✔✔Crescent
The longest spacewalk occurred in 2001 with astronauts Susan Helms and Jim Voss. About how many hours did their spacewalk last? ✔✔9 hours
What two planets are so similar that they are called the twin planets? ✔✔Uranus and Neptune
In 1232 AD, the Chinese attached gunpowder-filled tubes to arrows and used these arrows of flying fire as weapons against who? ✔✔The Mongols
According to the heliocentric theory, what was the center of the universe around which the rest of the universe revolved? ✔✔The Sun
At what age is a cadet eligible to solo a glider? ✔✔14 years old
What was the first true powered flight with humans on board? Who created it? ✔✔Hot air balloon; Montgolfier brothers
Cumulus clouds indicate and are associated with what? ✔✔They indicate good weather and are associated with turbulence
What sound at a high speed and strongly resists changes applied to it? ✔✔Gyroscope
Spring and Fall Equinox? ✔✔Sun is directly overheard equator at noon
Summer and Winter Solstice? ✔✔Summer- longest day of the year; sun is at its highest point
Winter- shortest day of the year; sun is at its lowest point
What are Saturn's rings made of? ✔✔Ice and rock
Why were Congreve rockets so successful? ✔✔Because of how often you could fire them
Greek named Hero made what kind of first rocket? ✔✔A sphere propelled by steam
Who achieved the first successful flight with liquid propellant? ✔✔Goddard
Who proposed exploration of space by rocket? ✔✔Konstatin Tsiolkovsky
Who discovered the relationship between pressure and fluids in motion? ✔✔Daniel Bernoulli
What is it called when the satellite talks to the ground? ✔✔Telemetry
What happens to a satellite when they die? ✔✔They are incinerated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere
Astronauts... ✔✔Sleep in bags attached to the wall, exercise
What is the part of the universe beyond the immediate influence of earth? ✔✔Space
How many Suns are in our galaxy? ✔✔200 billion
What is the smallest planet? ✔✔Mercury
What is the hottest planet? ✔✔Venus
In the formula f=ma (which is the mathematical equation that Newton's Second Law of Motion is based upon), the f stands for _________________. ✔✔Force
Our Earth rotates on its axis in a ________________________ direction. ✔✔Counterclockwise
The mechanical "door" that momentarily opens to get the burned gases out of the cylinder is called the __________. ✔✔Valve
When birds fly, most of the flapping of the wings is done by the______________. ✔✔Outer
The part of a hot air balloon that holds the hot air is called the ______________. ✔✔Envelope
________ is defined as the amount of push used to get the rocket traveling upwards. ✔✔Thrust
On the average, over ______ people are killed every year in the U.S. by lightning strikes. ✔✔ 200
Besides the winds, two other conditions to pay attention to when it comes to the category of hurricanes are barometric pressure and __________________. ✔✔The storm surge
Which of the following are clouds of gas and dust which spin, move and give galaxies shape? ✔✔Nebulae
Warm air has _______ molecules than cool air. ✔✔Less
Balloons and rockets have a strong similarity in the way they work. What is the biggest difference in the way the balloon gets its power and the way a rocket gets its power? ✔✔The balloon uses pressurized gas from one's breath, a pump, or a pressurized gas tank and the rocket uses solid or liquid burning propellants to produce the gas.
When you hold a ball in your hand, the force of __________ is trying to pull the ball downward. ✔✔Gravity
A ___________ uses the energy of the environment and every method possible to find lift and ride it to a greater height. ✔✔Sailplane
