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Club
100
What is the name of the NASA program aimed to reestablish human presence on the moon?
Artemis program
100
This supersonic luxury aircraft retired in 2003 and featured a droop snoot (a snoot that droops).
The Concorde
100
What is the top-most part of the rocket called?
Nose cone
100
What does Mach 2 mean?
Twice the speed of sound
100
Spell the club name
Aerospacs
200
What was the first organism humans launched into space?
Fruit flies
200
Andy Weir, author of The Martian, wrote this 2021 novel about a lone astronaut trying to save the sun.
Project Hail Mary
200
What is the propellant apparatus called?
motor/engine
200
Explain what redshifting is
When electromagnetic radiation (often emitted by a celestial body) travels away from the observer, extending the wavelength and shifting it down the spectrum
200
Name any 3 of our officers this school year
Henry, Hans, Joey, Jeffer, Wei Xi, Khant, Alan
300
This series of equations commonly used to predict flow is notoriously difficult to find global smooth, continuous solutions for.
Navier-Stokes equations
300
At the beginning of Top Gun: Maverick, Maverick pilots a fictional, hypersonic aircraft designed by Lockheed Martin. What real-world aircraft did the movie pay homage to?
SR-71 Blackbird
300
What are the small tubes on small rockets which guide it during launch called?
Launch lugs
300
What issue do winglets mitigate?
Reduce vortex shedding and thus induced drag from the wingtips
300
Who was the previous president(s)?
Jaehyeon (H)
400
Who stayed in orbit during the Apollo 11 mission.
Michael Collins
400
In Kerbal Space Program, the most efficient method of getting to orbit often involves a "gravity turn." Which two forces does this maneuver try to balance?
Horizontal velocity (for orbit) & aerodynamic drag near the surface of the celestial body
400
What allows for thrust vectoring in a rocket?
Gimbal
400
Rule of thumb says the rocket center of gravity should be this many calibers above the center of pressure
1.0-2.0
400
How many quarters have we been active (including this one)
8
500
Both Voyager 1 and 2 carry gold-plated copper disks which serve as time capsules. Who was the head of the committee which decided the contents of these "Golden Records"?
Carl Sagan
500
In the movie Interstellar, Gargantua spun close to the speed of light. In what way(s) was the accretion disk visual inaccurate?
The black hole should've had one side darker than the other or the light should've been blueshifted more.
500
What is the structural disk or barrier inside the rocket body that divides sections called?
Bulkhead
500
What is the formula for Reynold's number?
density * flow speed * characteristic length / dynamic viscosity
flow speed * characteristic length * kinematic viscosity
500
What was the name of our founder?
Angelina