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69 Cards in this Set
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What were the three exploratory satallite programs designed to study the moon
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Ranger, Lunar Orbitar, Surveyor
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When did project Ranger start
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1950's
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When did project Lunar Orbiter begin
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1960
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How many lunar orbiters were launched and between what years
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5, 10 August 1966 to 1 August 1967
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how many surveyor missions were geared toward apollo
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3
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what were the three experiments that each lunar orbiter carried
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selnodesy, meteoroid detection, radiation measurement
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When was surveyor approved
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1961
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what was surveyors purpose
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to soft-land on the moon
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When did surveyor 1 land
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2 june, 1966
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how many photos did surveyor one send back
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more than 10,000
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What was Kennedy's slogan for his 1960 presidental campaign?
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"Let's get this country moving again"
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Who did Kennedy charge with doing nothing about the myriad social, economic, and international problems that festered in the 1950s?
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President Eisenhower Administration
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Why did Jerome B. Wiesner tell Kennedy that the U.S. had to enter the "Space Race"?
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He concluded that the issue of "national prestige" was too great to allow the Soviet Union leadership in space efforts.
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How did Wiesner feel about the manned space program?
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He thought human spaceflight was a high-risk enterprise with a low-chance of success.
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Who did Kennedy directly adress in his inaugural address in January 1961?
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Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
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How many surveor mission were there
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7
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Which surveyor misions failed
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2 and 4
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how much thrust could the saturn 1 provide
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205,000 pounds
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what was the primary purpose of the saturn 1 booster
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research and development
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what was the mixture in the centaur booster
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lox and liquid hydrogen
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how much thrust could the centaur booster provide
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90,000 pounds
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what was the fuel mixture in the saturn 1
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lox and RP-1
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how many flights did the saturn 1 make
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10
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when was the centaur booster first used with the Saturn I rocket
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5th flight
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how much thrust could the first stage of the saturn IB provide
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1.6 million pounds
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with the second stage, how what pound payload could the saturn IB put into orbit
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62,000
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When was the saturn IB first tested
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26 Feb, 1966
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When did the only astronaut occupied saturn IB flight occur
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11-12 October, 1968
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What astronauts were on the 10/11-12/1968 Saturn IB flight and for what purpose
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Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, R Cunningham; to test the Apollo equipment
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How many orbits did the
10/11-12/1968 Saturn IB rocket make |
168
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How much thrust could the Saturn V provide
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7.5 million pounds
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When and where did the first static test of the Saturn V occur
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16 April, 1965 in Hunstville, Alabama
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When did the first launch test of teh Saturn V occur
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9 Nov, 1967
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What was the success rate of the Saturn V
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100%
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When was the partially successful test of the Saturn V rocket
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4 April 1968
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How much of NASA's budget went directly to human spaceflight?
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Approximately 50 percent
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Who continuously hammered Congress for NASA budget money?
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James Webb
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In 1960, what three buildings did NASA consist of?
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the Goddard Space Flight Center, the Jet Propulsion Laboratoy,and the Marshall Space Flight Center
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Who had the Saturn launch vehicle's second stage disassembled and then checked for problems?
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Werner von Braun
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How many expirements were performed in the Gemini Program?
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52
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Who submitted a request that greatly expanded his agency's fiscal year 1962 budget?
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NASA Administrator, James E. Webb in March 1961
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What act in 1961 forced Kennedy to stop working NASA at a slow pace?
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Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becoming the first human in space.
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When and how did Yuri Gagarin die?
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In 1967 from an aircraft accident.
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How did Alan Shepard's flight compare to Yuri Gagarin's?
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Shepard's was a lighter craft, shorter flight and was weightless for a shorter period of time.
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How did the Bay of Pigs debacle affect the U.S.?
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It damaged U.S. relations with foreign nations enormously, and made the communist world look all the more invincible.
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When did project apollo begin
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28 Nov,1961
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When did the last test in Project Apollo occur
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22 Oct, 1968
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When did James Webb Retire
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October, 1968
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When did Nasa Sign a contract with Grumman
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November, 1968
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Who designed the LM
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Grumman Aerospace Corps.
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When did Apollo 8 launch
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21 Dec, 1968
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What did the Apollo 8 crew transmit back to earth on Christmas Eve
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God created the heavens and the Earth, and the Earth was without form and void
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When did Apollo 8 Splashdown
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27 Dec, 1968
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When did Apollo 11 launch
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16 July, 1969
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When did the Eagle land on the moon
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20 July, 1969
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When did Apollo 11 splash down
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24 July 1969
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When did the Apollo 13 crew splash down
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17 April 1970
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When did the Apollo 13 launch
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11 april 1970
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how much did the apollo program cost
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$25.4 billion
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What are the 4 legacies Apollo left
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success in political goals, triumph of management,
a new view of the earth, the knowlege that apollo could not have been acomplished in normal times |
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Who headed the National Aeronautics and Space Council during the Kennedy administration?
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Lyndon Johnson
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Director of NASA's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Alabama during Kennedy administration?
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Wernher von Braun
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What did Wernher von Braun tell Johnson refering to lunar projects?
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"We have a sporting chance of sending a 3-man crew around the moon ahead of the Soviets" and "an excellent chance of beating the Soviets to the first landing of a crew on the moon"
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Who is Dean Rusk?
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Secretary of State under Kennedy and a member of the Space Council.
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What did NASA recommend to Johnson for the Project Apollo?
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1. Spacecraft and boosters for the human flight to the Moon.
2. Scientific satellite probes to survey the Moon. 3. A nuclear rocket. 4. Satellites for global communications. 5. Satellites for weather observation. 6. Scientific projects for Apollo landings. |
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What was the original estimate for the NASA lunar landing?
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1967
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When did Kennedy unveil the Apollo project to Congress?
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25 May 1961
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What was the name of Kennedy's second "state of the union" adress he gave to congress in May of 1961?
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"Urgent National Needs"
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What did Kennedy tell congress in his " Urgent National Needs" speech?
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the U.S. faced extraordinary challenges and needed to respond extraordinarily.
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