General
Who is Neil Armstrong?
The first man to walk on the moon.
What are the primary forces acting on a plane?
What are Drag, Lift, Gravity, and Thrust?
This iconic starship, designated NCC-1701, was commanded by Captain James T. Kirk in his mission to boldly go where no man has gone before.
What is the USS Enterprise?
What are the five steps of the engineering process?
Research, design, prototype, test, actual production.
What causes the causes the seasons?
The earth's tilt on it's axis and the earth revolving around the sun.
What is pitch, yaw, and roll? Bonus for 100: What would a plane do if its left aileron was up and the right one down?
Pitch is the nose angle, yaw is side to side motion, roll is the plane rotating lengthwise. The plane would roll to the right.
Who was the first woman in space?
Who is Valentina Tereshkova?
Han Solo famously boasted that this modified YT-1300 light freighter made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.
What is the Millennium Falcon?
What is the difference between artificial satellites and natural satellites?
Artificial satellites are objects created by humans and put into orbit by humans like GPS and ISS while natural satellites are things like moons.
What does it mean for a plane to “stall”?
Plane loses its lift. Happens if the angle of attack of the airfoils exceeds critical angle of attack.
What is a cloud of gas and dust where stars are formed?
What is a Nebula?
What is the name of Peter Quill's (Star-Lord's) primary spaceship in the first Guardians of the Galaxy film, named after his childhood celebrity crush?
What force allows parachutes to be effective?
What is drag?
What was the first satellite sent into orbit?
What is Sputnik?
Who is the father of modern fixed wing flight?
Sir George Cayley
What are the celestial bodies that are composed of ice, rock, and gas and travel in a long, elliptical orbit around the Sun called?
What are comets?
What is the primary method of faster-than-light travel used by Starfleet, which bends the fabric of space to move ships across the galaxy?
According to Bernoulli’s Principle, what happens to the air speed when the pressure decreases?
What is air speed increases?
What is the most recent satellite put into orbit?
What is India's NVS-03?
What are wind tunnels used for?
To test the flight properties of planes, spacecraft, cars, etc, use different pitch angles and see how object behaves, test air flow.
How many moons does Mars have?
2 (Phobos and Deimos)
What is the name of the moon-sized, planet-destroying superweapon constructed by the Galactic Empire in A New Hope?
What is the Death Star?