spaceflight review flashcards

Ancient China

Invented Rockets

V2

First Rocket in space

Werner von Braun

German scientist who got our rocket program going

Sputnik

The world's first space satellite. This meant the Soviet Union had a missile powerful enough to reach the US.

Laika

Dog, First animal in space, Soviet Union

Explorer 1

First American satellite

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Project Mercury

First step in the U.S. program to reach the Moon that orbited a piloted spacecraft around Earth and brought it back safely.

Yuri Gagarin

Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 was the first person to travel in space

Alan Shepard

First American in space

John Glenn

first American to orbit the earth

Valentina Tereshkova

First woman in space, Soviet Union

Project Gemini

second stage in the U.S. program to reach the Moon, two astronauts; space walks, rendezvous in space

Apollo Program

NASA plan to put a man on the moon and bring him safely back to earth

Apollo 1

Fire erupted in the Command Module during test run, three astronauts killed

Apollo 8

1968, U.S.; is first manned spacecraft to orbit the Moon

Apollo 11

1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became first people to walk on the moon

Apollo 13

1970: aborts mission after explosion of oxygen tanks

Astronauts return safely

Apollo 17

last mission to the moon

Neil Armstrong

1st person to walk on the moon; U.S. Apollo 11; July, 1969; his famous words - "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

Buzz Aldrin

second man to walk on the moon

Saturn V

Rocket developed by Werner von Braun and got American astronauts to the moon

Skylab

the first American space station

Mir

Soviet Space Station, the name means Peace

Space Shuttle

a spacecraft that can carry a crew into space, return to Earth, and then be reused for the same purpose

Challenger

1986, American Space Shuttle the exploded on launch

Buran

Soviet space shuttle

ISS

International Space Station

Columbia

2003, the Space Shuttle explodes upon reentry over Texas, all 7 astronauts are killed

Spaceship One

On September 29, 2004 this private launch vehicle completed First non-government-supported aerospace vehicle to fly in space

SpaceX Dragon

First private spacecraft to deliver supplies to ISS

Microgravity

Causes significant bone mass loss in astronauts, puffy face, motion sickness, muscle apathy

Rocket Fuel

Must contain an oxidizer to react with oxygen in space

Rocket

a device that expels gas in one direction to move in the opposite direction according to Newton's 3rd Law of Motion

Space Race

A competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union intensified by the Red Scare

JFK Moon Challenge

President Kennedy's 1962 speech challenging the the US to put a man on the moon within 10 years.