CAP Leadership Mitchell Review

CAP Leadership Mitchell Review

A heading indicator is also known as a...

Directional Gyro

Which of the following is NOT true regarding microbursts?

Microbursts usually occur gradually, thus allowing a pilot time to react

Which of the following provides energy that caused our atmosphere to move both horizontally and vertically?

The Sun

What rocket was used to launch the first manned Apollo mission, Apollo 7?

Saturn IB

What temperature scale is based on absolute zero and commonly used by scientists?

Kelvin

Who developed a technique called spin stabilization?

William Hale

What is the definition for orbit?

The path a satellite takes around a celestial body

What US manned space program was the first to use a two man capsule?

Gemini

The approximate daily dosage of radiation on the International Space Station is equivalent to how many chest x-rays?

About 8

Who was the first American to orbit the Earth?

John Glenn

In July of 2008, which NASA spacecraft confirmed water on Mars?

Phoenix Lander

What is the most widely accepted altitude where space begins?

62 miles

Space, as described by the Air Force and NASA, begins at an altitude of \_______miles.

76 miles

Which of the following pairs are NOT examples of NASA spinoffs?

Tang; Velcro

What term is described as a giant dirty snowball composed of frozen gases, water, dust, and icy lumps that sheds itself as it moves, leaving a long tail?

Comet

Which of Jupiter's moons is described as "a giant pizza covered with melted cheese and splotches of tomato and ripe olives"?

Io

How many Jupiters could fit inside the sun?

915

The four cycles of a four cycle engine are intake, \________, ignition/power, and exhaust.

Compression

Who is known as the "Father or Modern Astronautics"?

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Who was the first female commander of a Space Shuttle?

Eileen Collins

What does Newton's third law of motion state?

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction

According to Newton's second law of motion, what happens to acceleration if the mass increases?

If mass increases, acceleration decreases

What is one problem of operation an engine using a fuel mixture that is too lean?

The engine runs too hot

The successful mission of which vehicle marked the beginning of military operations in space?

X-37B (OTV-1) in 2010

Hailey's Comet reappears every \_____ years

76

For what does GNSS stand?

Global Navigation Satellite System

What was the name of the first joint international space mission that took place in 1975? This involved the linkup in space of American and Soviet manned spacecraft.

Apollo-Soyuz

Which of the following is NOT true regarding cumulus clouds?

They are high in the sky

A nautical mile is longer that a statute mile and is equal to how many feet?

6,076 feet

What is a star?

A large body of burning hot gases

In which of the American space programs did American men walk on the moon?

Apollo Program

What does the planet Uranus have 42 years of daylight followed by 42 years of night?

Because it is tilted 60 degrees on its axis

What is the name of the company that won the Ansari X-Prize

Scaled Composites

While GPS has many uses, it was primarily developed for which of the following purposes?

To enhance the effectiveness of US and allied military forces

How long does it take for Neptune to complete an orbit

165 years

What is the standard pressure?

29.92 inches of mercury

What term is defined as the tendency of an object at rest to stay at rest and an object in motion to stay in motion?

Inertia

What rocket was used to launch Gemini missions in 1965 and 1966

Titan II

What was the European Space Agency's "short-term" space station called that conducted experiments from inside the payload bay of a Space Shuttle?

STS-78

What term describes spacecraft that fly by, orbit, or land on a celestial body other than Earth?

Space probes

Which control surface creates/affects the yaw motion of an airplane?

Rudder

What is one significant way that the Gemini missions paved the way for Apollo missions?

They demonstrated rendezvous and docking procedures

Which of the following best describes our Sun?

Medium sized and expected to live for billions of years

What is the ozonosphere?

Absorbs a large amount of solar ultraviolet radiation

Which spacecraft below is becoming America's military space plane that can be used for space-based surveillance and reconnaissance?

X-37

What was the name of Alan Shepard's Mercury space capsule?

Freedom 7

Which of the following is a reciprocating engine?

Internal Combustion Engine

What rocket was used to launch Skylab into space?

Titan II

What was the first weather satellite? What was its name?

1960; TIROS I

What was the first communication satellite? What was its name?

1962; TELSTAR

When was the first satellite sent into space? What was its name?

1957; Sputnik I

In what year was the first US satellite successfully launched into orbit around the Earth? What was its name?

1958; Explorer I

Which of the following was NOT part of the criteria to win the Ansari X-Prize?

The project had a budget limit of two million dollars

Most asteroids travel in orbit between which two planets?

Mars and Jupiter

Which of the following was NOT a rocket launch vehicle workhorse for America's early space program?

Vanguard

In the 1920s, the writings of Hermann Oberth, a German rocket pioneer, helped inspire the formation of what?

Rocket societies

Who developed a technique called spin stabilization?

William Hale

Which of the following space shuttle orbiters did NOT fly in space?

Anything OTHER THAN Columbia, Challenger Endeavour, Discovery, or Atlantis

Airspeed is commonly described in what unit of measure?

Knots

Which of the following was a part of the criteria to win the Ansari X-Prize?

A non-government supported aerospace craft had to be used

What will the remaining core of a supernova become?

A neutron star or black hole

Which series of space probes flew by Venus and Mercury and gave us clear pictures of Venus' clouds and Mercury's cratered surface?

Mariners

Which of the following best describes the shape of an airfoil?

Tear-drop

Which of the following terms indicates space that is located between the Earth and Moon?

Cislunar space

What term is defined as the rate of change in velocity with respect to time?

Acceleration

Who was the first female in space?

Valentina Tershkova

How did Roger Bacon's improvement in the forms of gunpowder in England affect rockets?

It increased the range of the rocket

Which of the following is true of the International Space Station?

All of these answers are correct

What rocket was developed solely to send humans to the moon?

Saturn V

In order to stay in orbit around the Earth, an object must be at an altitude of at least how many miles?

80-90 miles

Why is Venus referred to as the Evening Star?

It is the brightest planet that can be seen from Earth

Which of the following is an example of payload?

All of these answers are correct

What is a cloud of gas and dust where stars may be forming?

Nebula

Just before takeoff, the pilot sets the \____________ to the local air pressure.

Altimeter

What term simply refers to a chamber enclosing a gas under pressure?

Rocket

What is a light year?

It is the distance light travels in one Earth year, which is a little less than 6 trillion miles

What is the most important element of our solar system?

The Sun

What is the shape of the galaxy in which we live?

Spiral

What galaxy shape have an indeterminate shape?

Irregular

What magnitude indicates the brightest shining star?

The lowest number

What United States space program served our country for 30 years (1981-2011)?

Space Transportation System (STS, also known as the Space Shuttle Program)

Which of the following is NOT true regarding how warmer temperatures affect takeoff?

Warmer temperatures affect the direction of takeoffs

What term is defined as the amount of push used to get a rocket traveling upwards?

Thrust

What does the aileron control?

Roll

Which term is defined as an enormous collection of stars arranged in a particular shape?

Galaxy

Which of the following is NOT true regarding liquid propellant?

Liquid propellant was used about 700 years prior to solid propellant

After you touch a hot pan, heat is transferred from the pan to your hand. This is an example of what method of heat transfer?

Conduction

What is the dominant force affecting the motion of a satellite in an Earth orbit?

The Earth's gravity

What classification of stars has the highest temperature?

O

How does an increase in the angle of attack (that would not result in a stall) affect lift?

It increases lift

How does the Moon's diameter compare to Earth's diameter?

The Moon's diameter is about 1/4 the size of the Earth's diameter.

How long did America's first manned space flight last?

15 minutes

What is the goal of NASA?

Peaceful exploration of space for the benefit of all humankind

Which of the following is NOT true about solar eclipses?

They occur during daylight hours when the Sun moves directly between the Moon and the Earth

Which phase of the Moon reveals only a small sliver of the Moon as seen form the Earth?

Crescent

The longest spacewalk occurred in 2001 with astronauts Susan Helms and Jim Voss. About how many hours did their spacewalk last?

9 hours

What two planets are so similar that they are called the twin planets?

Uranus and Neptune

In 1232 AD, the Chinese attached gunpowder-filled tubes to arrows and used these arrows of flying fire as weapons against who?

The Mongols

At what age is a cadet eligible to solo a glider?

14 years old

What was the first true powered flight with humans on board? Who created it?

Hot air balloon; Montgolfier brothers