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FamousPeople

RocketHistory

RocketPrinciples

RocketSystems

and Controls

FamousSpaceFlights

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First man to walk on the moon

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Neil Armstrong

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A Russian; first man in space

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Yuri Gagarin

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Father of Modern Rocketry

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Robert Goddard

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First American in space

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Alan Sheppard

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First American to orbit Earth

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John Glenn

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The first rocket engine; developed by the Greeks

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Hero

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These rockets lit the sky during the battle at Fort McHenry in 1812

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Congreve Rockets

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These rockets were fired at London during WWII

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V-2 Rockets

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The space program formally organized by the US in October 1958

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NASA

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The first US space station

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Skylab

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The rate or change in velocity with respect to time

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Acceleration

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To force or push, the amount of push to get the rocket traveling upwards

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Thrust

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

motion

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Inertia

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Mass times acceleration

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Force

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For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction

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Newton’s Third Law of Motion

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System that steers the rocket and keeps it stable

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Control System

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What the rocket carries

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Payload

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The brains of the rocket

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Guidance System

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Gives the rocket its shape and other systems are contained within it

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Air frame

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Combination of fuel and oxidizer

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Propellant

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The first artificial satellite in space, October 4, 1957

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Sputnik I

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The rocket that placed Friendship 7 into space; it held John Glenn

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Atlas Rocket

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The name of the missions that held two crew members

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Gemini

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The space program designed to put man on the moon

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Apollo

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A space transportation system used for transporting to space and returning to

Earth

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Space Shuttle