History
The name of the first human-made object to leave the solar system?
What is Voyager 1?
The term for the force that propels a rocket forward.
What is Thrust?
What does LEO stand for in Space Terms?
Low-Earth-Orbit
What is Tory Bruno's horse's name?
Indigo
Which ULA rocket and configuration launched the solar-powered Juno spacecraft destined for Jupiter?
Atlas V 551
The phase of flight occurs after the engines have shut down and the rocket is coasting.
What is free-fall or ballistic phase?
Name the elliptical orbit that must first be achieved before reaching GEO (Geostationary Earth Orbit)
GTO (Geostationary Transfer Orbit)
A famous movie released in 1998 that features a launch pad used by ULA.
What is "Armageddon"?
"Discovered" the moon?
Who is Galileo Galilei?
A propulsion system that uses two different chemicals, one as fuel and one as an oxidize
What is a Bipropellant System?
The nearest star system to Earth.
What is the Alpha Centauri system?
Around how many minutes does it take for light to reach the Earth?
8-9 minutes
ULA's Atlas V launched the New Horizons probe. What was its destination?
Pluto
Wrote the famous equational principles of motion used in rocketry.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
A maneuver using the relative movement and gravity of a planet or other celestial body to alter the path and speed of a spacecraft.
What is a gravitational slingshot maneuver?
Which famous television sitcom included a storyline involving a ULA rocket launch?
The Big Bang Theory
What was the first animal sent to space?
Fruit Flies to study the effects of radiation
What is my Specific Impulse if my exit velocity is 2,943 m/s?
300 seconds
The term for the theoretical boundary around a black hole beyond which no light or other radiation can escape.
What is a black hole event horizon?
Name the late-night talk show host who visited ULA’s rocket factory
Who is Conan O'Brien?