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Spaatz Aerospace Practice Test
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Spaatz Aerospace Practice Test
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1. Allowed the contractor to be paid 80 percent of the air mail revenue

2. Was who built the Spacelab

3. Aeronautics

4. Was the first US manned space flight

5. Transports up to three cosmonauts to and from space

6. Aerospace

7. Organized Balloon Signal Service of the Union Army

8. Conduction

9. Began in America when Ralph Pulitzer offered a trophy to promote high-speed flight

10. Was a motorcycle racer before being interested in aviation

11. Studied the reaction between sunlight and earth's ozone layer

12. The magnetic compass

13. If you control the air, you cannot be beaten; if you lose the air, you cannot win

14. Developed the first practical helicopter

15. Permits users to instantly determine their position, provides their velocity and time, and is more accurate than any radio system

16. The centrifugal effect

17. Provided the first close-up pictures of Jupiter and Saturn

18. An important improvement over the balloon

19. The turn-and-slip indicator

20. A problem with early aircraft engines

21. Pressure

22. Is not able to be found on earth

23. Is the path of a body through space

24. Provided the first close-up pictures of the moon

25. The aircraft radio