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Space Exploration Quiz: Questions and Answers, Exams of Aviation

A comprehensive quiz covering various aspects of space exploration, including historical milestones, key figures, spacecraft, and scientific discoveries. It provides a valuable resource for students interested in learning about the history and advancements in space exploration. The quiz format encourages active learning and knowledge retention.

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2024/2025

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CAP Aerospace Mitchell Questions and
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What rocket was used to launch the first manned Apollo mission, Apollo 7? ✔✔Saturn IB
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
Space, as described by the Air Force and NASA, begins at an altitude of _______miles. ✔✔76
Miles
Which of the following pairs are NOT examples of NASA spinoffs? ✔✔Tang; Velcro
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What rocket was used to launch the first manned Apollo mission, Apollo 7? ✔✔Saturn IB

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

Space, as described by the Air Force and NASA, begins at an altitude of _______miles. ✔✔ 76 Miles

Which of the following pairs are NOT examples of NASA spinoffs? ✔✔Tang; Velcro

How many Jupiters could fit inside the sun? ✔✔ 915

Who was the first female commander of a Space Shuttle? ✔✔Eileen Collins

The successful mission of which vehicle marked the beginning of military operations in space? ✔✔X-37B (OTV-1) in 2010

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

In which of the American space programs did American men walk on the moon? ✔✔Apollo

What is the name of the company that won the Ansari X-Prize ✔✔Scaled Composites

What rocket was used to launch Gemini missions in 1965 and 1966 ✔✔Titan II

What was the European Space Agency's "short-term" space station called that conducted experiments from inside the payload bay of a Space Shuttle? ✔✔STS-

Which of the following was NOT a rocket launch vehicle workhorse for America's early space program? ✔✔Vanguard

Who developed a technique called spin stabilization? ✔✔William Hale

What rocket was developed solely to send humans to the moon? ✔✔Saturn V

US' first manned spaceflight project ✔✔Mercury

US' manned spaceflight project that achieved the first walk in space and the first two-man capsule ✔✔Gemini

Russia's space station of the 1980's and 1990's ✔✔Mir

director of the V-2 rocket project ✔✔Wernher von Braun

In the 1970s, which probes provided pictures and data for which two planets? ✔✔Pioneer and Voyager; Saturn and Jupiter

Who achieved the first successful flight with liquid propellant? ✔✔Goddard

The first autonomous (automatic, unmanned) landing of an orbital vehicle onto a runway on Earth occurred for the first time in 2010 with what space vehicle? ✔✔OTV-1 (X-37B)

Which of the following is NOT true about Uranus? ✔✔Uranus is the fastest planet to orbit the Sun.

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)? ✔✔Virgin Galactic or Scaled Composites

Which of the following is NOT true regarding the airframe? ✔✔It is the "brain" of the rocket.

In what year did both the first Russian cosmonaut and first American astronaut go to space? ✔✔ 1961

Engine oil is extremely important in aircraft engines. Which of the following is NOT a primary function of engine oil? ✔✔To fill the voids in the engine

What are the most common kinds of stars in the Universe? ✔✔Red dwarf, low mass

radiation belts around the Earth filled with charged particles ✔✔Van Allen Belts

What was the significant purpose for the creation of the Ansari X-Prize? ✔✔to encourage private/commercial spaceflight

What started the "race for space" between the US and the USSR? ✔✔Launch of Sputnik 1

What was the duration of the last and longest manned mission to Skylab? ✔✔84 Days

Which satellite gave us our first photograph of Earth from space? ✔✔Explorer 6

Which of the following occurred in the Gemini Program? ✔✔The first spacewalk

How many miles is 1 AU? ✔✔About 93 million miles

What tool do astronomers use to show the magnitude and temperature of stars and to see the relationships among the stars? ✔✔Hertzsprung Russell diagram

Who developed the first rocket engine ✔✔Archytas

Since 1957, about _____ countries have launched satellites into space. ✔✔ 83

Which layer contain a majority of our weather and clouds? ✔✔Trophosphere

In 1997 the spacecraft near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) made a close encounter with what asteroid? ✔✔Eros

Which scientist developed the geocentric theory? ✔✔Ptolemy