Module 4 Review

1. Who developed the first rocket engine? P 1

2. In the 1st century AD who developed gunpowder and what was it used for? P 2

3. Who was Jean Froissart and what did he develop? P 2

4. Who laid the scientific foundations for modern rocketry and what were they? P 2

5. Who developed a technique called spin stabilization? P 2

6. Who proposed the idea of space exploration and what year was it? P 3

7. Who is known as the father of modern astronautics? P 3

8. Who conducted many practical experiments with rockets in the 20th century? P 3

9. What did Goddard achieve in 1926? P 3

10. Who is known as the father of modern rocketry? P 3

11. Who published a book about rocket travel and what year did he do it? P 4

12. Who is Wernher von Braun and what did he do? P 4

13. What did Sergei Korolev do? P 4

14. What two countries recognized the potential of the rocketry as a military weapon? P 4

15. Name three missiles that were used to launch satellites and astronauts into space? P 4

16. Who launched the first satellite into space? What was it named and what was the date? P 4

17. What does NASA stand for and when was it organized? P 4

18. Who became the first American in space? What type of capsule was it and what was it named? P 5

19. Who was the first American to orbit the Earth and what was the date? What type of capsule was it and what was it named? P 5

20. On what day did the American’s land of the moon? Who was the first man to walk on the moon. What vehicle powered their Apollo 11 capsule into space? P 6

21. What was the name of the next U. S. project after the moon program? P 6

22. What is the space shuttle? P 7

23. What is Newton’s First Law of Motion? P 14

24. What is Thrust? P 14

25. What is Newton’s Second Law of Motion? P 14

26. What is the definition of acceleration? P 14

27. Use an example from the book to explain Acceleration. P 14

28. What is Newton’s Third Law of Motion? P 14

29. Give an example from the chapter to explain the third law. P 15

30. What is a payload? P 23

31. What is an airframe? P 23

32. What is guidance? P 23

33. What is the control system and what does it do? P 23-24

34. What does the propulsion system do? P 24

35. What are the two kinds of propellant used in rockets? P 24

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