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lunar rover

A car-like vehicle that was used on the moon and allowed the astronauts to travel several miles away from their spacecraft

Guion Bluford

First African american to go into space on Apollo 11

Sally Ride

First American woman in space

Apollo 7

First manned Apollo mission. Tested Command + Service module orbiting around the Earth.

Chuck Yeager

First pilot to fly faster than the speed of sound

Skylab

Skylab was the first United States space station, launched by NASA, occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974. It was operated by three separate three-astronaut crews: SL-2, SL-3 and SL-4.

Yuri Gagarin

Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 was the first person to travel in space (1934-1968)

Mercury Space Program

first human spaceflight program of the United States. It ran from 1959 through 1963 with the goal of putting a man in orbit around the Earth. The Mercury-Atlas 6 flight on February 20, 1962 was the first Mercury flight to achieve this goal

What are the 4 basic systems of a rocket?

navigation, radio, stages, and stabilization

Neil Armstrong

1st person to walk on the moon; U.S. Apollo 11; July, 1969; his famous words - "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

Space Shuttle Columbia

2003: breaks up in atmosphere over Texas on re-entry, killing entire crew Changes to space protocol are enacted to increase safety in response to the Columbia 2 year hiatus follows for Space Shuttle Discovery

Robert Goddard

"Father of Rocketry"; 1st to launch a liquid fuel rocket (March, 1926)

Newtons 3 laws of motion

1. Law of Inertia 2. Law of Acceleration 3. Law of Action-Reaction

Apollo 11

1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became first people to walk on the moon

Apollo 14

1971 lunar mission; Alan Shepard driving golf ball and Edgar Mitchell attempting to send telepathic messages to fellow parapsychologists on earth.

Apollo 15

1971: American astronauts became first to drive rover on the surface of the moon.

Redstone ICBM

A product of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville , Alabama under the leadership of Wernher von Braun , Redstone was designed as a surface-to-surface missile for the U.S. Army.

Apollo 8 mission

American astronauts successfully orbit the moon

Outer Space Treaty

An international agreement, signed by the United States and the former Soviet Union, that banned the introduction of military weapons into outer space, prohibited the extension of national sovereignty in space, and encouraged cooperation and sharing of information about space research.

Apollo 12

Apollo 12 was the sixth crewed flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon. It was launched on November 14, 1969, from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, four months after Apollo 11.

Apollo 13 mission

Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and the third meant to land on the Moon. The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module (SM) failed two days into the mission.

Apollo Soyuz Test Program

Apollo-Soyuz was the first international space mission, carried out jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union in July 1975. Millions of people around the world watched on television as a United States Apollo module docked with a Soviet Union Soyuz capsule.

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What future position will John Jay have with the US Government in 1789?

Chief Justice of the United States In 1789

Congressman Bill Nelson

Clarence William "Bill" Nelson II (born September 29, 1942) is an American attorney and politician who served as a United States Senator from Florida from 2001 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party , he previously served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1972 to 1978 and in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1991.

Apollo 17

Collected mare material from the floor of the Taurus-Littrow valley and samples from surrounding highland rocks. Discovered orange regolith made of orange and black glass beads.

European Space Agency

Established in 1975, it is an intergovernmental group dedicated to space exploration. It's members include: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

What future position will Alexander Hamilton have with President Washington in 1789?

George Washington assigned Alexander Hamilton the task of solving the nation's debt.

Apollo 16

Hoped to sample primitive highland volcanic rocks. Found andorthosites that were 4.4 - 4.5 billions of years old.

Sputnik 1

In 1957 Sputnik 1 was launched into space by the Russians and became the 1 sattelite to orbit the earth.

James Webb

James Edwin Webb (October 7, 1906 - March 27, 1992) was an American government official who served as the second appointed administrator of NASA from February 14, 1961, to October 7, 1968.

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center is a Chinese space vehicle launch facility located in the Gobi Desert, Inner Mongolia.

Which Mercury astronaut flew the first orbital mission?

John Glenn

Ohio

KCLE

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KCLT

Kentucky

KCVG

Virginia

KIAD

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KJFK

Tennssee

KMEM

New Hampshire

KMHT

Louisiana

KMSY

The New Nine

NASA Astronaut Group 2, also known as the New Nine and the Next Nine, was the second group of astronauts selected by NASA. Their selection was announced on September 17, 1962. The nine astronauts were Neil Armstrong, Frank Borman, Pete Conrad, Jim Lovell, James McDivitt, Elliot See, Tom Stafford, Ed White and John Young.

Space Shuttle Challenger

NASA's second Space Shuttle orbiter to be put into service; exploded after takeoff; killed all onboard; used to compete with Soviet Union

Alan Shepard

Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman. In 1961, he became the first American in space

Salyut 1

Salyut 1 (DOS-1) was the first space station launched into low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on April 19, 1971. The Salyut program followed this with five more successful launches of seven more stations.

Space Shuttle Enterprise

Space Shuttle Enterprise was the first orbiter of the Space Shuttle system. Rolled out on September 17, 1976, it was built for NASA as part of the Space Shuttle program to perform atmospheric test flights after being launched from a modified Boeing 747.

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T.F. Green Airport

Agena Target Vehicle

The Agena Target Vehicle (ATV) was an unmanned spacecraft used by NASA during its Gemini program to develop and practice orbital space rendezvous and docking techniques and to perform large orbital changes, in preparation for the Apollo program lunar missions

To the citizens of what State were these articles directed?

The Articles of Confederation were established in 1777 by the Second Continental Congress.

Guiana Space Center

The Guiana Space Centre is a French and European spaceport to the northwest of Kourou in French Guiana, a region of France in South America. Operational since 1968, it is particularly suitable as a location for a spaceport.

Titan II GLV

The Titan II GLV or Gemini-Titan II was an American expendable launch system derived from the Titan II missile, which was used to launch twelve Gemini missions for NASA between 1964 and 1966. Two uncrewed launches followed by ten crewed ones were conducted from Launch Complex 19 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, starting with Gemini 1 on April 8, 1964.

X-15A

The X-15 Aircraft. The X-15 is perhaps the most ambitious aircraft ever created. It was built to push the limits of flight and explore the possibilities of space travel.

Gemini space program

This NASA program had 10, two-man space flights from 1965-66 This program's objective was to develop space travel techniques in preparation for the Apollo missions to the moon.

Vostok 1 Rocket

This family of rockets launched the first artificial satellite (Sputnik 1) and the first crewed spacecraft (Vostok) in human history.

Werner Von Braun

Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun was a German-born American aerospace engineer and space architect.

Atlas Rocket

When John Glenn orbited the Earth, he was launched by the powerful

Sea of Tranquility

a large plain where the Apollo 11 astronauts first set foot on the moon in 1969

Hubble Space Telescope

a space telescope and camera named for a famous astronaut (Edward Hubble) used to study space elements

Stephen Hawking

an author/scientist stricken with Lou Gehrig's disease whose research indicates that black holes can lose mass over time

Geostationary Orbit (GEO)

an orbit that is about 36,000 km above the Earth's surface and in which a satellite is above a fixed spot on the equator

Why did the Saturn 1B rocket's first stage have "slosh" baffles?

because of the temperatures

Felix Baumgartner

is an Austrian skydiver, daredevil, and BASE jumper.[1] He is best known for jumping to Earth from a helium balloon from the stratosphere on 14 October 2012 and landing in New Mexico, USA as part of the Red Bull Stratos project.

Saturn Rockets

the first U.S. rocket specifically developed for spaceflight, was a two-stage liquid-fuel vehicle that placed uncrewed test versions of Apollo spacecraft and other satellites into Earth orbit in the early 1960s

What were the two main mission objectives of the Gemini Program?

to test flights for the moon.

Ham the Astrochimp

was a chimpanzee and the first hominid launched into space. On January 31, 1961, Ham flew a suborbital flight on the Mercury-Redstone 2 mission, part of the U.S. space program's Project Mercury.

Chris Kraft

was an American aerospace engineer and NASA engineer and manager who was instrumental in establishing the agency's Mission Control operation.

Apollo 1

was intended to be a test of the Command/Service Module in low-Earth orbit (LEO). However, a fire on the launchpad during a test killed the three astronauts aboard (Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Roger Chaffee, and Ed White). The fire was exacerbated by the pure-oxygen, positive-pressure environment inside the capsule, and the fact that the capsule door opened inward. Both of these design elements were scrapped in subsequent missions, and the second was replaced with an outward-opening hatch nominally to facilitate spacewalks. Lessons learned from Apollo 1 were also taken into account during the design of the Space Shuttle.


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