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Aerospace Review: Questions and Answers, Exams of Aerospace Engineering

A comprehensive set of questions and answers related to aerospace, covering topics such as space exploration, rocketry, celestial bodies, and aviation. It provides valuable insights into the history, technology, and principles of aerospace, making it a useful resource for students and enthusiasts.

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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
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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