General
Orbits
Flight
Space
Fiction
100

Who is Neil Armstrong?

The first man to walk on the moon.

100
What is an orbit?
Gravitationally curved path of an object around a point in space, one body rotating around another body
100

What are the primary forces acting on a plane? 

What are Drag, Lift, Gravity, and Thrust?

100
How many planets are in our solar system?
8, not counting Pluto 9, counting Pluto
100

This iconic starship, designated NCC-1701, was commanded by Captain James T. Kirk in his mission to boldly go where no man has gone before.

What is the USS Enterprise?

200

What are the five steps of the engineering process?

Research, design, prototype, test, actual production.

200

What causes the causes the seasons?

The earth's tilt on it's axis and the earth revolving around the sun.

200

What is pitch, yaw, and roll? Bonus for 100: What would a plane do if its left aileron was up and the right one down?

Pitch is the nose angle, yaw is side to side motion, roll is the plane rotating lengthwise. The plane would roll to the right.

200

Who was the first woman in space?

Who is Valentina Tereshkova?

200

Han Solo famously boasted that this modified YT-1300 light freighter made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.

What is the Millennium Falcon?

300
What does NASA stand for?
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
300

What is the difference between artificial satellites and natural satellites?

Artificial satellites are objects created by humans and put into orbit by humans like GPS and ISS while natural satellites are things like moons.

300

What does it mean for a plane to “stall”?

Plane loses its lift. Happens if the angle of attack of the airfoils exceeds critical angle of attack.

300

What is a cloud of gas and dust where stars are formed?

What is a Nebula?

300

What is the name of Peter Quill's (Star-Lord's) primary spaceship in the first Guardians of the Galaxy film, named after his childhood celebrity crush?

What is Milano? (Alyssa Milano)
400

What force allows parachutes to be effective?

What is drag?

400

What was the first satellite sent into orbit?

What is Sputnik?

400

Who is the father of modern fixed wing flight?

Sir George Cayley

400

What are the celestial bodies that are composed of ice, rock, and gas and travel in a long, elliptical orbit around the Sun called?

What are comets?

400

What is the primary method of faster-than-light travel used by Starfleet, which bends the fabric of space to move ships across the galaxy?

What is Warp Drive?
500

According to Bernoulli’s Principle, what happens to the air speed when the pressure decreases? 

What is air speed increases?

500

What is the most recent satellite put into orbit?

What is India's NVS-03?

500

What are wind tunnels used for?

To test the flight properties of planes, spacecraft, cars, etc, use different pitch angles and see how object behaves, test air flow.

500

How many moons does Mars have?

2 (Phobos and Deimos)

500

What is the name of the moon-sized, planet-destroying superweapon constructed by the Galactic Empire in A New Hope?

What is the Death Star?