Intro to flight
What is the device called on the bottom of the wing that draws in air to allow for an airspeed gauge to read?
Pitot tube
Who was the first human to orbit the Earth?
Yuri Gagarin
Which was the first space shuttle to launch into space?
Columbia [1981]
What does the "COM" mean in a .com website address?
Commercial
Which 2 scientists that never flew discovered the laws and priciples for the science of manned flight?
Daniel Bernoulli and Sir Issac Newton
What does the abbreviation "ELT" stand for?
Emergency Locator Transmitter
Which rocket was the first to orbit the moon?
NASA Saturn V / Apollo 8
Kelvin
Linux
What was the name of the famous lighter than air aircraft that crashed in New Jersey in 1937?
Hindenburg
The number at the end of a runway indicates what?
Heading magentic heading of the runway.
Which famous space actor flew to space on a Blue Origin rocket?
William Shatner [Played the original Capt James T Kirk on Star Trek]
Which planet is closest to the sun?
Mercury
What is the software called that can cause damage or unauthorized access to a computer system?
Malware
A column of air that moves vertically is known as what?
A thermal
What was the name of the first space station in orbit?
Sky Lab
What is a group of stars called that can usually make shapes in the night sky?
Constellations
What is a cyber-attack that is used to make a machine or network resource unavailable called?
Denial of service attack [DoS or DDoS]
What is the lowest level of the atmosphere called?
Troposhere
To date, what is the largest rocket ever launched?
Which type of eclipse is caused by the Earth passing betwee the sun and moon?
Lunar
Phishing