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Which was the first mission to land humans on the Moon?
Apollo 11
How many manned missions were part of the Mercury Program?
6
Who was the first American in space?
Alan Sheperd
What was the purpose of Gemini Program?
Practice EVA activities and docking maneuver
Who was the first man to orbit the Earth?
Yuri Gagarin
Who laid the scientific foundations for modern rocketry in the 17th century?
Sir Isaac Newton
Who was the first American to orbit the Earth?
John Glenn
Who commanded the Apollo 11, the first mission to land on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
Which rocket launched Yuri Gagarin into space?
Vostok 1
What was the primary purpose of the Titan II rocket in the Gemini Program?
Launch Gemini Spacecraft
What was Johann Schmidlap’s contribution to rocketry?
Multi-staged rockets
Which civilization first experimented with gunpowder-filled tubes as rockets?
Chinese
Which space program focused on long-duration flights and gathering data for lunar missions?
Apollo
When did the first moon landing occur?
1969
Who invented the aeolipile, an early rocket-like device?
Hero of Alexandria
Who was the third astronaut on Apollo 11 who did not walk on the moon?
Michael Collins
What was the name of the Soviet spacecraft that carried the first human into space?
Vostok 1
What was the primary fuel for the V-2 rocket developed during World War II?
Ethanol (or alcohol?) and liquid oxygen
What year did the Soviet Union launch Sputnik I?
1957
How many stages did the Saturn V rocket have?
3
What fuel did the Redstone rocket use?
Ethyl alcohol and liquid oxygen
In what year was the first reported use of true rockets during a battle?
1232
In what year did Robert Goddard receive a patent for a liquid-fueled rocket?
1914
Who developed the theory that the speed and range of a rocket are limited only by the exhaust velocity of escaping gases?
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Who were the astronauts on the first manned mission to orbit the moon (Apollo 8)?
Frank Borman, Bill Anders, Jim Lovell
What was the significance of Sputnik I?
First artificial satellite
Who were the astronauts that walked on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission?
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin
Which program was the first to have a spacecraft orbit the moon?
Apollo
What did Robert Goddard propose in 1920 that was initially ridiculed?
Rockets to the moon
Jean Froissart’s idea of launching rockets through tubes was a precursor to which modern weapon?
Bazooka
Who said “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”?
Neil Armstrong
Which rocket was used to launch the Apollo 11 mission?
Saturn V
What kind of fuel did the Saturn V rocket use in its second stage?
Liquid hydrogen and Liquid oxygen
Who improved the gunpowder formula to increase the range of rockets?
Roger Bacon
What was the first U.S. space program that launched humans into space?
Mercury
Which rocket became the first successful long-range ballistic missile?
V-2
Which launch vehicle was used in the Gemini program?
Titan II
Which program marked the first time humans practiced docking in space?
Gemini
What type of rocket was used for suborbital flights in the Mercury Program?
Redstone
Which Russian school teacher proposed the idea of space exploration by rocket in 1898?
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
What was the main propellant for the Atlas rockets used in the Mercury program?
RP-1 and liquid oxygen
Which was the primary objective of the Apollo program?
Land humans on the moon
Who developed the A-4 rocket, also known as the V-2 rocket?
Wernher von Braun
Who designed a rocket-powered torpedo for setting enemy ships on fire?
Joanes de Fontana
In which year did Yuri Gagarin orbit the Earth?
1961
What principle does the aeolipile demonstrate?
Reactive Force
Which rocket was modified from a ballistic missile for orbital flights in the Mercury Program?
Atlas-D
Which spacecraft carried the first chimpanzee into space during the Mercury program?
Mercury-Redstone 2
What was the first space program to use a two-person spacecraft?
Gemini
What was the name of the first human-made satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957?
Sputnik I
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