UCI
This company donated the land for the campus in 1965.
Irvine Company
What is the name of the first artificial satellite to be launched into space?
What is Sputnik 1?
The name of the robotic rover that was sent to Mars in 2012 to explore the planet's surface and search for signs of past microbial life?
What is the Mars Curiosity rover?
an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, telecommunications equipment, and missiles worldwide. It was founded in 1916, and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Notable products include the 747, 777, and 787 commercial airliners, as well as military aircraft such as the F/A-18 Super Hornet and the AH-64 Apache helicopter.
What is Boeing?
What is the name of the 2014 Christopher Nolan-directed film, in which Matthew McConaughey plays a former NASA pilot who leads a team of astronauts on a mission to save humanity by finding a new habitable planet?
What is Interstellar?
This famous comedian and actor who starred in the TV series "Parks and Recreation" and "Master of None" is an alumnus of UC Irvine.
Aziz Ansari
What is the name of the type of satellite orbit that takes the satellite over the Earth's North and South poles, providing coverage of the entire planet?
What is a polar orbit?
What is the name of the first space shuttle, which was launched by NASA in 1981.
What is the Space Shuttle Columbia?
This company became what is known today after a merger between two coporations in 1994. Some notable projects include the B-2 stealth bomber, the James Webb Space Telescope, and the Global Hawk unmanned aircraft.
What is Northrop Grumman?
What 1968 science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick features a mysterious black monolith, a sentient computer named HAL 9000, and a journey to Jupiter?
What is 2001: A Space Odyssey?
What science fiction movie was filmed with the backdrop of the SSL and SST buildings as the background.
What is Planet of the Apes
What is the name of the satellite navigation system developed by the European Union, which is similar to the GPS system developed by the United States?
What is Galileo?
The name of the Russian spacecraft that was used to transport cosmonauts to and from the International Space Station.
What is the Soyuz spacecraft?
A non-profit organization that provides technical guidance and advice on space-related issues to the United States government, primarily to the Department of Defense and the National Reconnaissance Office. It was founded in 1960 by the US Air Force to help with the development of ballistic missile technology.
What is the Aerospace Corporation?
What is the name of the 2013 Alfonso Cuarón-directed film, in which Sandra Bullock and George Clooney play astronauts who are stranded in space after their shuttle is destroyed?
What is Gravity?
UC Irvine's mascot was almost a different animal entirely. What was it supposed to be?
What is a Sea Hawk
What is the name of the telescope that is set to replace the Hubble Space Telescope.
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
The name of the telescope that was launched by NASA in 1990 and has captured some of the most stunning images of the universe, but required a repair mission in 1993 due to a flawed mirror?
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
An American aerospace manufacturing company headquartered in Long Beach, California. Developing manufacturing technologies, launch vehicles, and rocket engines for commercial orbital launch services. The company is notable for manufacturing most of their Terran 1 and Terran R rocket parts using 3D printing.
What is Relativity Space?
In the 1986 film Top Gun, what is the call sign of Tom Cruise's character, a talented but reckless naval aviator who goes to the Navy's elite fighter weapons school?
What is Maverick?
What was the original name of UC Irvine when it was first established in the early 1960s?
What is Orange County University?
What is the name of the process by which a satellite uses the gravitational pull of a planet to increase its speed and change its trajectory, without using any fuel?
What is a gravity assist?
The name of the technology used by NASA to land the Mars Perseverance rover on the planet's surface in 2021, which involved a supersonic parachute and a jet-powered platform?
What is the Sky Crane?
Is a leading manufacturer of small satellites primarily serving the United States and Allied aerospace and defense industries. Provides end-to-end satellite solutions by combining satellite design, production, launch planning, mission operations, and in-orbit support to meet the needs of the most demanding military, civil, and commercial customers.
What is Terran Orbital?
What is the name of the 2016 science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve, in which Amy Adams plays a linguistics professor recruited by the US military to communicate with aliens who have arrived on Earth?
What is Arrival?