CAP Aerospace Module 4 - Rockets

Neil Armstrong

first man to walk on the moon

Roger Bacon

increased the range of rockets

William Congreve

designed rockets for military use

Jean Froissart

improved the accuracy of rockets by launching them through tubes

Yuri Gagarin

a Russian; the first man in space and the first man to orbit earth

John Glenn

first American to orbit the Earth

Robert Goddard

experimented with solid and liquid propellant rockets; is called the "Father of Modern Rocketry"

William Hale

developed the technique of spin stabilization

Hero

developed the first rocket engine

Sergei Korolev

the leading Soviet rocket science; known as the "Father of the Soviet Space Program"

Sir Isaac Newton

laid the scientific foundation for modern rocketry with his laws of motion

Hermann Oberth

space pioneer; wrote a book about rocket travel into outer space

Alan Shephard

first American in space

Skylab

first US space station

Space Shuttle

a space transportation system for traveling to space and back to Earth

Spin Stabilization

a technique developed by Englishman, William Hale, wherein escaping gases in a rocket hit small vanes that made the rocket spin, and stabilize, much like a bullet in flight

Sputnik I

first artificial satellite; Russian

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

proposed the use of rockets for space exploration and became known as the "Father of Modern Astronautics"

Wernher von Braun

director of the V-2 rocket project

Acceleration

the change in velocity with respect to time

Airframe

provides the shape of the rocket and keeps it stable

Control System

steers the rocket and keeps it stable

Guidance System

gets the rocket to its destination; brain of the rocket

Inertia

the tendency of an object at rest to stay at rest and an object in motion to stay in motion

Newton's First Law of Motion

a body at rest tends to stay at rest and a body in motion tends to stay in motion at a constant velocity unless acted upon by an outside force; inertia

Newton's Second Law of Motion

the rate of change in the momentum of a body is proportional to the force acting upon the body and is in the direction of the force

Newton's Third Law of Motion

for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction

Payload

what the rocket is carrying

Propulsion

everything associated with propelling the rocket

Thrust

the force or push; the amount of push used to get a rocket traveling upwards

SpaceShipOne

aircraft with suborbital capability

SpaceShipTwo

SpaceShipOne's successor that could possibly offer the general public space travel