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Centripetal vs. Centrifugal
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Plasma
100

This food item is a favorite amongst astronauts but not Barbara Morgan or her dog. 

What is shrimp cocktail?

100

This type of force is known as a PSEUDO force.

What is Centrifugal Force?

100

The astronaut's coined this term due to fluid shifts in the body.

What is Puffy Head Bird Legs?

100

Cart 1 now covers these categories:

What is rocket propulsion, distribution of pressure, liquid nitrogen, centripetal/centrifugal, and working in space?

100

This is the definition of plasma.

What is a gas that has undergone ionization?

200

This telescope was shroud in liquid nitrogen as well as gaseous helium in a "russian doll style" to radiatively cool in Chamber A, an enormous thermal vacuum testing chamber housed at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, 

What is the James Webb Telescope?

200

This type of force is a REAL force.

What is a Centripetal Force?

200

This can be worn in space to help combat fluid shift due to its vacuum technology.

What is negative pressure suits?

200

Cart 2 now covers these categories: 

What are the senses in space, human body in space, space food, and space pen?

200

These are three things that you should not do when handling the plasma ball

What is touch the plasma ball with wet hands, wear metal rings, clean the ball when it is on or plugged in, perform in the presence of flammable materials, engage if you have a pacemaker or other internal medical device, touch a conductor with your bare hands? 

300
The Orion Capsule's heat shields, made of Avcoat, reach this temperature when reentering Earth's atmosphere due to friction.

What is 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit (2,760 C)?

300

The length of a tetherball rope preventing the ball from escaping, the backrest that prevents guests from escaping the spin on a fair ride, and gravity are considered this type of force. 

What is centripetal force?

300

This is the term for poor blood flow to the eyes causing white spots on the retina.

What is Cotton Wool Spots?

300

Cart 3 now covers these five concepts/experiments:

What is sodium polyacylate, plasma, friction, Bernouilli's principle, and Mind Reader/Binary Code?

300

This causes the Circuit Stick, Neon bulbs, and light bulbs to light up when around the plasma ball.

What is the electrical field?

400

NASA uses this to encode and transmit data from spacecraft and telescopes, enabling communication and processing of information from space.

What is the binary code?

400

The tetherball seems to be moving away from the center pole, seems like guests are being pushed up on the fair ride, and it seems like it keeps at a distance because some other force acts in opposition to gravity are considered this type of force.

What is centrifugal force?

400

These are the four types of space food.

What is fresh, thermo-stabilized, rehydratable, and irradiated?

400

True or false: A chemical breakdown occurs when water is in the vacuum of space. 

What is false?

400

This percentage is how much plasma makes up visible matter in our universe.

What is 99%?

500

While fighter pilots can withstand brief periods of 9-10Gs, Astronauts can typically withstand this much during launch and reentry.

What is roughly 3-4 Gs? 

500

This is a machine that uses centrifugal force to detach or separate the contents based on their density. 

What is a centrifuge?

500

This space tool has a movable handle that can be locked into different ports to give astronauts additional leverage or control.

What are scoops?

500

This would happen to water in the vacuum of space.

What is immediately boil, vaporize into a gas, and freeze into tiny crystals depending on the surrounding temperature?

500

This is an example of how plasma relates to NASA that was covered in training. 

What is reentry burn, the sun, and the stars?

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