Billy Mitchell: Aerospace + Leadership Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass

Billy Mitchell: Aerospace + Leadership Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass satellite - Answer- natural or artificial object in space that orbits the Earth Explorer 1: - Answer- Us launched the Explorer 1 on January 31,1958. The Explorer 1 was the first spacecraft to recognize the Van Allen radiation belt around the Earth held in place by Earth's magnetic field. In October 1958, the US formally organized it's space program by creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Spaceship One: - Answer- aircraft with suborbital capability; On June 21, 2004, Mike Melvill, test pilot for Scaled Composites of Mojave Aerospace Ventures, flew their entry for the competition, SpaceShipOne, on a record breaking flight. He reached an altitude of 328,491 feet, making him the first private pilot to earn NASA's highly coveted astronaut wings. 3 months later, on September 29, Melvill flew Spaceship one again on the first official mission to meet the requirements set forth in the rules of competition for the X-Prize. To go to space as a passenger... - Answer- Initially cost $200,000 per person orbit - Answer- the path a satellite takes around a celestial body apogee - Answer- the highest point of an orbit perigee - Answer- the lowest point of an orbit Sputnik - Answer- the first artificial satellite COMSTAT - Answer- communications satellites INTELSAT - Answer- International Telecommunications Satellite Organization NAVSTAR - Answer- navigation satellites LANDSAT - Answer- satellites that locate natural resources and monitor conditions on the Earth's surface GOES - Answer- Geostationary Operations Environmental Satellites Johannes Kepler - Answer- discovered satellites orbiting around Jupiter in the 1600's Kepler's First Law - Answer- the orbit of each planet is an ellipse, with the Sun at the focus Mercury - Answer- US' first manned spaceflight project Gemini - Answer- US' manned spaceflight project that achieved the first walk in space and the first two-man capsule Apollo - Answer- US' manned spaceflight project that put man on the Moon Skylab - Answer- US' manned spaceflight project that put a laboratory into space; first US space station Apollo-Soyuz - Answer- Manned spaceflight project linking American and Soviet spacecraft in space Space Shuttle - Answer- US' Space Transportation System (STS) for transporting into space and returning to Earth Neil Armstrong - Answer- First man to set foot on the moon Telstar - Answer- first commercial satellite Space Station Alpha - Answer- future space station, a joint venture with US, Europe, Canada, Japan, and Russia Mir - Answer- Russia's space station of the 1980's and 1990's Salyut - Answer- Russia's first space station Spacelab - Answer- European Space Agency's first space station black hole - Answer- a region in space where no radiation is emitted cislunar space - Answer- the space between the earth and the moon constellation - Answer- a grouping of stars, named after mythical figures and animals galaxy - Answer- an enormous collection of stars arranged in a particular shape interplanetary space - Answer- measured from the center of the sun to the orbit of its outermost planet interstellar space - Answer- the distance from one solar system to another microgravity - Answer- small gravity levels or low gravity nebulae - Answer- giant could of dust and gas pulsar - Answer- pulsating star that flashes electromagnetic emissions in a set pattern space - Answer- region beyond the earth's atmosphere where