Who was the commander of the 1st manned spacecraft to land on the moon?
How long does it take to get to the moon?
Why was the Apollo 13 crew changed at the last moment?
Where do they launch from?
Where is Mission Control located?
Explain “lift off” in terms of Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion? (draw a diagram)
Why did the helmets float away from the crew?
What does the crew have to dock with when they get to space? Why?
What event led to the explosion on the command module?
What is venting from the space craft into space?
What do they have to do to save both power and O2?
Why did the LEM (Aquarius) become a “lifeboat”?
Why were communications lost on the far side of the moon?
The "lifeboat" that the three astronauts used to survive in on their way back to Earth, was only designed for two astronauts. What was the life threatening problem that developed?
How did Houston solve the problem?
What point of reference does Lovell use to guide the LEM during the short engine burn?
What was the problem with powering up for the re-entry sequence?
Why is there condensation on the windows of the Command Module?
What does the Command Module look like as it enters Earth’s atmosphere? Why?
To introduce the history of rockets, we watched the 1999 October Sky Movie (movie trailer).
And answered Video Questions (Credit: Terence W. Cavanaugh Ph. D.)
1. What country launched the world's first man-made satellite, Sputnik, into Earth orbit on October 4, 1957?
2. Because Sputnik travels at 18,000 mph, it can make an orbit of Earth every ___ minutes.
3. Satellites passing overhead are visible in a clear dark sky one hour after ________ and one hour before ________.
4. Sputnik travels at a height of ______ miles above the Earth.
5. Describe what Sputnik looked like passing through the sky:
6. What did Homer use as the fuel for his first rocket?
7. What happened to the Vanguard rocket launched by Dr. Werhner Von Braun?
8. Rocketry was invented by the ____________, as early as 1000 AD.
9. Homer learns about potassium chlorate and sulfur to use as ________ for his rockets.
10. Draw the rocket and match/label the parts:
Nose cone
Body tube/combustion chamber
Nozzle
11. The purpose of the nozzle in a rocket is to direct the flow of _____________.
12. Miss Riley says, "Science requires __________."
13. What do the boys build at Cape Coalwood to use for launching rockets?
14. When potassium chlorate and sugar are combined with heat, oxygen and expanding gases are produced, making an effective rocket ____________.
15. What lab safety equipment do the students use in the classroom?
16. When the rockets exploded, heat from the exhaust was melting the ___________.
17. When rocket fuel combusts, the nozzle directs a hot river of gas that reaches the speed of ______.
18. If the mass of the propellant compared to the mass of the rocket is too little, increase the _______ of the rocket.
19. The properties of alcohol are that it is stable and dilutes ____________.
20. What measurement do the rocket boys make during the rocket flights to calculate the height of the rocket?
21. Who told Homer at the national science fair "Congratulations and good luck"?
22. What happened to Miss Riley during the science fair?
23. What career did Homer end up having?
