Airplanes
Who was the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air?
Who is Amelia Earhart?
Define conduction, convection, and radiation.
Conduction: Heat transfer via solids
Convection: Heat transfer via fluids (including air)
Radiation: Heat transfer via a vacuum
What does the acronym NASA stand for?
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration?
What is the most common rocket fuel used in space rockets?
What is hydrogen?
How long would it take to drive a car straight up at about 65 miles an hour?
What is an hour?
How does a wing work?
Air flows faster under the wing than above the wing. This creates an area of low pressure over the wing and pulls it up. The higher pressure under the wing also pushes the wing up.
How do hang gliders fly?
Convecting air (when hot air rises up) lifts the delta wings on a hang glider, especially if it starts at high altitude.
Which galaxy is further away from Earth?
a. Andromeda
b. Large Magellanic Cloud
What is the Giant Magellanic Cloud?
*The cloud is a satellite of our galaxy, so it's closer. Andromeda is the largest galaxy in the Local Group and is over 10 times further away than the GMC! Neat!
Which was the only failed moon mission?
What is Apollo 13?
Why do aeroplane windows have holes?
Which aircraft carries a space shuttle from California to Florida?
What is the Jumbo Jet (Or the Boeing 747)?
What element comes last alphabetically?
What is zirconium?
What was the first living organism to go to space?
What was a dog named Laika?
Is it true or false that "pitch" is a word used in relation to a rocket's orientation?
True; Pitch refers to the way that the rocket turns upon its centre of gravity. This commonly takes place as it enters orbit.
What was the first-ever space shuttle?
What is the Enterprise?
What is the world's largest firefighting aircraft?
What is the Boeing 747 Supertanker?
What elementary particle's antiparticle is the positron?
What is the electron?
Who is the astronaut on the Apollo 11 mission who didn't walk on the moon?
Who is Michael Collins?
When scientists are speaking about propulsion, what does "v" stand for?
a. Victory
b. Verse
c. Velocity
d. Vector
What is the velocity?
*The letter "v" is used to represent velocity when referring propulsion.
How many orbits did American astronaut Alan B. Shephard make when he travelled into space in May of 1961?
None! The flight was suborbital - it lasted for roughly 16 minutes only!
What does PRM or SOIA stand for? Choose either.
PRM: Precision Runway Monitor
SOIA: Simultaneous Offset Instrument Approach
What theory of physics proposes that energy isn't transferred continuously, but indiscrete amounts?
What is the quantum theory?
Which of these refers to the mass over which a star will become a black hole?
a. Chandrasekhar limit
b. Planck mass
What is the Chandrasekhar limit?
*It's named after Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar. the physicist who independently calculated the limit at the age of 19, in India. The Planck mass is much, much smaller.
Why does it always rain after a space shuttle launch? (This question's answer required an oral explanation!)
The hydrogen burned and combined with oxygen produces water vapour. This vapour condenses in a short while and starts raining.
Who was the leader of the Soviet lunar landing project?
Who was Valentin Glushko?