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| International Space Station |
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| How many planets are there in our solar system? |
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| Are the planets (when in normal order) listed as going away or twards the sun? |
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| Increasing distance from the sun |
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What is:
-rocky
-varying in size from fist size to 500 miles across
-Its belt is between Mars/Jupiter |
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Where are comets found?
What are they made out of? |
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Way deep outer space
Made of dirty ice balls |
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What planets have rings?
What are the rings made out of? |
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Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, & Neptune
Made of ice, rock, and dirt (commonly some rings are a mix of those three) |
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| How is a "shooting star" created, what is does its life consist of? |
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| A comet melts, dirt escapes into the solar system, it will enter our atmosphere at super high speeds, then we see it :) |
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| How big is the average meteor? |
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| The size of a grain of sand |
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| The earth is approx. how many miles in diameter? |
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| How many earths could fit in the sun? |
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| What is approx. sun to earth distance? |
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| What is the star that is closest to the earth? |
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| What is the star closest to the sun? |
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| What is the fastest possible speed? |
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| What is the approximate distance of 1 LY? |
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| Stars tend to form in groups called __________ |
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| What galaxy do we live in? |
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| How many stars approx. does the Milky Way have in it? |
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| How many millions does 1 AU equal? |
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| Who is known as the pioneer of rocketry? |
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| Where is White Sands? Why was it created? What goes on there? |
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White Sands, NM
Rocket testing facilities
Established for Rocket Research |
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| Where is Cape Canaveral? What other space station is it near? |
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Cape Canaveral is in Florida
It is near the Kennedy Space Station |
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| What was the decade of the Cold War? |
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| What is the world's first and largest operational space launch facility? Where is it located? |
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Baikonur Cosmodrome
(Kazakhstan, Russia)
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| What country sent the first animal into space? What was the animal? |
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Russia (USSR)
Dog - Lakia :) |
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| 1957 :The USSR did what for the first time? |
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| USSR sends first satellite into space: Sputnik |
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| In 1958, what was established in the US that was specifically civilian run? |
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| In 1958 what did the US Launch? |
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| First US Satellite: Explorer 1 |
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| Who was the first man put into space orbit? Where was he from? |
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| Where is a Cosmanot from? |
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| Where is a Taikonaut from? |
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| Where are Astronaut's from? |
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| Who was the first man put into space by the US (suborbital)? |
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| Who was the first man put into orbit by the US? |
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| Who was the first woman in space? |
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| Who was the first astronaut to spacewalk? |
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| Who was the first human on the moon? Where was he from? |
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| Neil Armstrong - US Astronaut |
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| What Apollo ship carried the first men to land on the moon? |
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| How many humans have walked on the moon? |
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| What Apollo attempt was known as the "successful failure" |
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| First flight with combined US/Soviet space program members |
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| Airplanes, rockets, and jets all use what for forward moving energy? |
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| The pressure associated with a faster moving fluid (gas/liquid) is (more/less)? |
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| What was the last flight for the Apollo's? |
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| Who was the first human put into outer space? Where was he from? |
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| Who was the first Chinese man to be sent into space from China? |
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| Who was the father of theoretical astronomy? |
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| What German/American rocket physicist became one of the leading leaders of developing rocket technology (best rocket engineer of the 20th Century) |
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It was the first Space Station launched by the US-into orbit.
It served as a laboratory for scientific experiments in space. |
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| What two component's "burn" to create waste and energy? |
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| What is Burnoulli's Principle? |
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| An increase in the speed of fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in pressure or a decrease in the fluid's potential energy. |
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| Speed combined with direction |
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Things with mass possess a property called inertia-(does not have units, more of a tendency/property)
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The acceleration resulting (> change in velocity > speed and or direction) is directly proportionate to the force. Force goes down by 10, acceleration goes down by 10.
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All forces exist in pairs.All forces in the universe exist in equal and opposite pairs.
--> for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction – forces
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an object at rest tends to stay at rest, unless acted on by an outside force.
Stays in motion (same velocity) unless acted on by an outside force
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| What is Specific Impulse? |
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Measures rocket engine efficiency: how the 1 lb. of fuel will maintain 1 lb. of thrust.
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| Fuel and Oxidizer are mixed with a ? |
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| The fuel and oxidizer when mixed with a binder next are... |
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| are molded into the correct size/shape that one wants > molded into a form that is called a grain. Can be very large. |
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| What is a Progressive burn? |
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As the fuel burns, the burning area gets bigger > the thrust increases with time > called a Progressive Burn
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| What is a Regressive burn? |
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When the grain is burning from the outside in, the burning area gets smaller > thrust decreases with time > Regressive burn
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