Space Past
The study of the stars and planets.
What is Astronomy?
The first man in space.
Who was Yuri Gagarin?
A supermassive object so dense it sucks up everything around it. One sits at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
What is a black hole?
The third mission to the moon. Dubbed "The Successful Failure".
What was Apollo 13?
The woman who successfully created the math to safely bring a human being back to Earth from orbit.
Who was Katherine Johnson?
The most common grip in padel.
What is Continental Grip?
The idea that the Earth is at the center of the Universe.
What is Geocentrism?
The first satellite ever launched.
What was Sputnik?
This is the type of star our sun is.
What is a Yellow Dwarf?
The equipment that rockets carry into space, which stays in orbit.
What is a shuttle?
The part of the capsule which protects the person inside from burning up on reentry of the planet’s atmosphere.
What is the heat shield?
The country where Padel was first invented.
What is Mexico?
The idea that the sun is at the center of the Universe.
What is Heliocentrism?
The first mission that successfully landed on the moon.
What was Apollo 11?
This explosion occurs when a large star runs out of energy and 'dies'.
What is a Supernova?
This is how we bring astronauts and other object in space – such as satellites and space stations – back down to Earth safely.
What is controlled crashing?
The first American to orbit the Earth.
Who was John Glenn?
To start a padel point you must drop the ball and hit below the waist line to opposite side of the opponent’s court.
What is a serve?
The study of the stars and planets applied to people.
What is Astrology?
A masterful feat of modern engineering which continues to take amazing pictures of deep space to be used for scientific research on our universe.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
The orbiting telescope credited with finding most of the known habitable planets in the galaxy.
What is the Kepler telescope?
The first deep space probe ever sent out. It is carrying a golden record in hopes of one day coming into contact with aliens who could listen to it and come visit us.
What is the Voyager 1?
The first African American woman to become a NASA engineer.
Who was Mary Jackson?
The motion of stopping before hitting the ball.
What is split step?
The Islamic Scholar who was the first to correctly calculate the circumference of the Earth.
Who is Abu Rayhan Al-Biruni?
The collective name for the moon missions.
What was the Apollo Program?
The distance from a star a planet must be to support life.
What is the Habitable Zone?
The probe currently orbiting Jupiter.
What is the Juno Probe?
The struggle between the USA and the Soviet Union to control the stars.
What was the Space Race?
The number of games in a set.
What is 6?
The man who popularized the idea that the sun is at the center of the Universe. He was punished by the Church for his promotion of this idea.
Who was Galileo?
The tragedy that slowed down the moon missions - seven more rockets were tested before the next manned flight.
What was Apollo 1?
This is the estimated age of the Universe
The engineer who calculated the failsafe that saved Apollo 13 after its oxygen tank exploded.
Who was Judith Love Cohen?
The first African American woman to be assigned as a supervisor at NASA.
Who was Dorothy Vaughn?
The amount of points a player must win by in any set?
What is 2?
The man who is credited with popularizing the round Earth. It is debated if he ever really existed.
Who is Pythagoras?
The name of the first NASA program which put humans into space.
What was the Mercury Project?
When two stars orbit each other.
What is a binary star system?
The captain of the Apollo 13 missions.
Who was Jim Lovell?
The governmental agency in the USA in charge of all things space travel.
What is NASA?
The right service court is also called this.
What is the DEUCE court?
A flat Earth covered by a dome which is itself surrounded by water. Rain happens when gods open windows in the dome.
What is the oldest model of the world?
The leader of the Soviet Space Program, who launched the first satellite and the first man into space.
Who was Korolev?
Planets that don't orbit a star, but instead wander through space.
What is a Rogue Planet?
America’s disastrous first attempt to launch a satellite into orbit.
What was the Vanguard satellite?
The first of their kind, these machines helped quickly calculate launch and landing, but took away dozens of women’s jobs at NASA.
What is an IBM computer?
The two shots only used in padel, not tennis.
What are the Bandeja and Vibora?