Rockets 101
Rocket engines push hot gas out the back to create forward motion. This famous principle says every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton’s Third Law of Motion?
This scientist discovered the three laws of planetary motion.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
In 1932, LEGO was founded in this country.
What is Denmark?
This region and corresponding red, anticyclonic storm is located in Jupiter's southern hemisphere.
What is the Great Red Spot?
In the 2008 Pixar film WALL-E, this sleek white probe arrives on Earth, capturing the attention (and heart) of this lonely trash-compacting robot.
Who is EVE?
Unlike airplanes, rockets must carry their own supply of this gas because space has none of it.
What is oxygen?
The Apollo 13 mission took place in this year.
What is 1970?
In 2011, astronauts built LEGO models aboard this orbiting laboratory around Earth.
What is the International Space Station (ISS)?
This red planet is home to a massive canyon system, Valles Marineris, stretching longer than the distance from New York to Los Angeles.
What is Mars?
“3…2…1… Let’s jam!” opens episodes of this anime about bounty hunters roaming the solar system in search of criminals.
What is Cowboy Bebop?
To stay in orbit around Earth, a spacecraft must travel at about 28,000 km/h, reaching this type of speed.
What is orbital velocity?
In 1986, a failure of this component, also found in plumbing, was the cause of the Challenger disaster.
What is an O-ring?
The LEGO company has released several sets based on NASA rockets, including this giant Moon rocket from the Apollo program.
What is the Saturn V?
This planet rotates so slowly that a single day there lasts longer than its year around the Sun.
What is Venus?
This Star Wars planet has thousands of vertical levels that people live on, and the surface is 100% covered by a city.
What is Coruscant?
During launch, spacecraft pass through “Max Q,” the moment when they experience the greatest amount of this force from moving through the atmosphere.
What is pressure?
Launched in 1977, these two spacecraft are the farthest human-made objects from Earth and are now traveling through interstellar space.
What are the Voyager probes?
This famous NASA rover that landed on Mars in 2021 also has an official LEGO Technic set.
What is Perseverance?
This moon of Saturn is covered in a thick atmosphere and has lakes and rivers made of liquid methane and ethane.
What is Titan?
In Dune, spice is the most valuable substance in the universe and exists only on planet Arrakis; this organization controls the spice trade.
What is the Spacing Guild?
The core of the Saturn V rocket was powered by this number of F-1 engines.
What is five?
This NASA mission launched in 2021 and intentionally crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid to test planetary defense.
What is Double Asteroid Redirection Test?
This NASA-themed LEGO set, released in 2017, includes minifigures of astronomer Nancy Grace Roman, computer scientist Margaret Hamilton, and astronauts Sally Ride and Mae Jemison.
What is Women of NASA?
A massive body orbiting close to another massive body experiences a stronger gravitational field on one side than the other, leading to this extreme stretching effect.
What is tidal force?
In Interstellar, 1 hour spent on Miller’s planet equates to 7 years on Earth due to gravitational time dilation caused by this nearby black hole.
What is Gargantua?