Rocketry and the Space Race

Question 1

System includes propellant, containers & plumbing. Gets propellant from containers to engine.

Accepted Answer

Propulsion

Question 2

Who extended the range of British rockets from 300 yards to several thousand yards?

Accepted Answer

Col William Congreve

Question 3

What rocket system’s job is to carry out the orders of the “brain” system?

Accepted Answer

Control

Question 4

What does a rocket engine not need that a jet engine uses?

Accepted Answer

Air

Question 5

What country had rockets by 1000 and used them in battle?

Accepted Answer

China

Question 6

Who had a lead role in developing missiles for Nazi Germany, and later for the United States?

Accepted Answer

Wernher von Braun

Question 7

Who is known as the father of modern rocketry?

Accepted Answer

Robert H. Goddard

Question 8

What was another use for rockets scientists began to think of during the early 20th century?

Accepted Answer

Spaceflight

Question 9

What did the Air Force create in 1982?

Accepted Answer

Space Command

Question 10

What is the tendency for a body at rest to stay at rest until some force acts on it?

Accepted Answer

Inertia

Question 11

A form of government where people are under control of state authority; oppresses opposition?

Accepted Answer

Totalitarianism

Question 12

What background have many US astronauts come from?

Accepted Answer

The US Air Force

Question 13

What was the world's first ballistic missile?

Accepted Answer

The V-2 Rocket

Question 14

What does a rocket carry that is necessary to its mission?

Accepted Answer

Payload

Question 15

Which rocket system is the rocket's "brain"?

Accepted Answer

Guidance

Question 16

He didn't want the military to take lead in the space race. He preferred civilian space agency?

Accepted Answer

President Eisenhower

Question 17

How did many Americans view winning the space race?

Accepted Answer

A matter of National Security

Question 18

Whose interest in spaceflight & travel to other planets was inspired by a science fiction book.

Accepted Answer

Herman Oberth

Question 19

Who formulated the three laws of motion?

Accepted Answer

Sir Isaac Newton

Question 20

What governs rocket propulsion, flight, and control?

Accepted Answer

Laws of Physics

Question 21

What was the first satellite to be launched into space?

Accepted Answer

Sputnik 1

Question 22

What did the Space Act of 1958 create?

Accepted Answer

National Aeronautics & Space Administration

Question 23

Rocket system, provides streamlined shape; must be able to stand up to heat/stress/vibration?

Accepted Answer

Airframe

Question 24

What was a crucial arena of competition in the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

Space

Question 25

What type of engine is a rocket engine?

Accepted Answer

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