CAP Billy Mitchell Aerospace Test Questions & Correct Answers 2024/2025 What rocket was used to launch the first manned Apollo mission, Apollo 7? - Correct Answer Saturn IB Who developed a technique called spin stabilization? - Correct Answer William Hale What US manned space program was the first to use a two man capsule? - Correct Answer Gemini The approximate daily dosage of radiation on the International Space Station is equivalent to how many chest x-rays? - Correct Answer About 8 Who was the first American to orbit the Earth? - Correct Answer John Glenn What is the most widely accepted altitude where space begins? - Correct Answer 62 miles Who is known as the "Father or Modern Astronautics"? - Correct Answer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky What does Newton's third law of motion state? - Correct Answer For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction For what does GNSS stand? - Correct Answer 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. - Correct Answer Apollo-Soyuz Which of the following is NOT true regarding cumulus clouds? - Correct Answer They are high in the sky A nautical mile is longer that a statute mile and is equal to how many feet? - Correct Answer 6,076 feet What is the name of the company that won the Ansari X-Prize - Correct Answer Scaled Composites 1 / 2
While GPS has many uses, it was primarily developed for which of the following purposes? - Correct Answer To enhance the effectiveness of US and allied military forces What is the standard pressure? - Correct Answer 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? - Correct Answer Inertia What rocket was used to launch Gemini missions in 1965 and 1966 - Correct Answer Titan II What term describes spacecraft that fly by, orbit, or land on a celestial body other than Earth? - Correct Answer Space probes What is one significant way that the Gemini missions paved the way for Apollo missions? - Correct Answer They demonstrated rendezvous and docking procedures What was the name of Alan Shepard's Mercury space capsule? - Correct Answer Freedom 7 What rocket was used to launch Skylab into space? - Correct Answer Titan II What was the first weather satellite? What was its name? - Correct Answer 1960; TIROS I What was the first communication satellite? What was its name? - Correct Answer 1962; TELSTAR When was the first satellite sent into space? What was its name? - Correct Answer 1957; Sputnik I In what year was the first US satellite successfully launched into orbit around the Earth? What was its name? - Correct Answer 1958; Explorer I
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