CAP Billy Mitchell Aerospace Exam Questions & Answers

CAP Billy Mitchell Aerospace Exam
Questions & Answers
Question 1
What term describes spacecraft that fly by, orbit, or land on a celestial body other
than Earth?
Correct Answer
Space probes



Question 2
Which of the following was NOT a rocket launch vehicle workhorse for America's early
space program?
Correct Answer
Vanguard



Question 3
What was the first true powered flight with humans on board? Who created it?

Correct Answer
Hot air balloon; Montgolfier brothers



Question 4
Who developed a technique called spin stabilization?
Correct Answer
William Hale



Question 5
For what does GNSS stand?
Correct Answer
Global Navigation Satellite System




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,Question 6
What is the most widely accepted altitude where space begins?
Correct Answer
62 miles



Question 7
The approximate daily dosage of radiation on the International Space Station is
equivalent to how many chest x-rays?
Correct Answer
About 8



Question 8
Which of the following is NOT true about solar eclipses?
Correct Answer
They occur during daylight hours when the Sun moves directly between the Moon
and the Earth



Question 9
What is the heliocentric theory?
Correct Answer
It is a theory which placed the Sun at the center of the universe.



Question 10
A nautical mile is longer that a statute mile and is equal to how many feet?
Correct Answer
6,076 feet




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,Question 11
Yuri Gagarin
Correct Answer
First man in space and first to orbit the Earth



Question 12
Who is known as the "Father or Modern Astronautics"?
Correct Answer
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky



Question 13
What is the standard pressure?
Correct Answer
29.92 inches of mercury



Question 14
If the Sun were hollow, about how many Earth's would fit inside it?
Correct Answer
One million



Question 15
What is one significant way that the Gemini missions paved the way for Apollo
missions?
Correct Answer
They demonstrated rendezvous and docking procedures



Question 16
Which satellite gave us our first photograph of Earth from space?
Correct Answer
Explorer 6




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, Question 17
What rocket was used to launch the first manned Apollo mission, Apollo 7?
Correct Answer
Saturn IB



Question 18
What was the name of Alan Shepard's Mercury space capsule?
Correct Answer
Freedom 7



Question 19
What rocket was used to launch Gemini missions in 1965 and 1966
Correct Answer
Titan II



Question 20
What magnitude indicates the brightest shining star?
Correct Answer
The lowest number



Question 21
In what year was the first US satellite successfully launched into orbit around the
Earth? What was its name?
Correct Answer
1958; Explorer I



Question 22
In April 1990, what did Discovery deploy?
Correct Answer
Hubble Space Telescope




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