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Rocket Scientists
YGK These Rocket Scientists
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Foundation for modern rocketry (gimballed engines, fuel pumps, gyroscopic stabilization) | Robert Goddard |
| Goddard's seminal 1919 monograph | A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes |
| Maryland NASA center namesake | Robert Goddard |
| Equation relating rocket speed, mass, and exhaust velocity | Tsiolkovsky rocket equation |
| Tsiolkovsky's 1903 publication | Exploration of Outer Space by Means of Rocket Device |
| Measure of rocket efficiency connected to Tsiolkovsky's work | Specific impulse |
| Phenomenon where rockets are more efficient at higher speeds | Oberth effect |
| German society inspired by Hermann Oberth's writing | Verein für Raumschiffahrt (Spaceflight Society) |
| Developer of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket | Wernher von Braun |
| U.S. recruitment program for German scientists after WWII | Operation Paperclip |
| First Director of NASA’s Marshall Spaceflight Center | Wernher von Braun |
| Rocket used to launch the Apollo spacecraft | Saturn V |
| Designer of takeoff assist units for the Me 163 and Ba 349 | Hellmuth Walter |
| Chemical whose catalyzed decomposition provides oxygen for combustion | Hydrogen peroxide |
| Soviet "Chief Designer" of the R-7 ICBM and Sputnik | Sergei Korolev |
| Event during which Korolev was imprisoned in slave labor | Great Purge |
| Fluid dynamicist who described a specific form of turbulence | Theodore von Kármán |
| Turbulence pattern responsible for "singing" power lines | Kármán vortex street |
| Guggenheim lab that became the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) | GALCIT |
| Accepted boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space | Kármán line |
| Rocket nose cone shape designed to minimize drag | Kármán ogive |
| NASA Flight Director for Mercury and Apollo projects | Gene Kranz |
| Aggressive testing strategy favored by Gene Kranz | All-up testing |
| Kranz's role in the Apollo 13 mission | Leader of the "white team" |
| Safe path engineered to bring Apollo 13 back to Earth | Free-return trajectory |
| Founder of the Big Creek Missile Agency in West Virginia | Homer Hickam |
| Satellite that inspired Homer Hickam's interest in rocketry | Sputnik |
| NASA specialty of Homer Hickam | Astronaut training (including Hubble EVAs) |
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