Astronomy A | Module 8 | Lesson 10: Quiz: "Becoming a Space Professional"

What do we call the industry that covers professions that deal with both commercial and government vehicles that fly within earth's airspace?

Aerospace

The CAPCOM acronym gets its name from which combination of words?

Capsule communication

In space, astronauts are bound by International Space Law, rather than the laws of their own respective countries.

False

On space missions with international teams, every country involved wants the flight director to be chosen from their country because their national space organization receives a significant amount of funding if they lead the mission.

False

Postdocs refer to degrees that you gain after 10 years as a tenured professor.

False

Which of the following candidates would be most prepared for a career in academia?

Sharon, who has a PhD in chemistry and is willing to move to any city for a job

What usually happens before astronauts can apply to the astronaut candidate program?

They have to log at least 1,000 hours flying in a jet.

Which industry was expanded due to the "space boom" in Cape Canaveral?

Tourism

A petabyte is larger than a terabyte.

True

If an astronaut on the International Space Station harms another astronaut on the spacecraft, it is the responsibility of the victim's country to prosecute.

True

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will collect more data per year than the Hubble Space Telescope.

True

Which three countries originally signed the Outer Space Treaty?

United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union

What characteristic may make you likely to pursue a career in software engineering?

You enjoy improving the way computer programs visually display, in order to help their users be more productive.

What characteristic may make you likely to pursue a career in data science?

You feel most comfortable when you can present your ideas visually with charts, graphs, and reports.

Which of the following is NOT an example of big data at play?

a list of the largest stellar-mass black holes in the universe