Famous Quotes
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Neil Armstrong
The original Space Race began in 1957 when the Soviet Union launched what first artificial satellite into Earth orbit?
Sputnik 1
What is the full name of the regular Saturday Speaking Club host? (200 Bonus Points)
Didar Yeraliyev
According to special relativity, what fundamental value in a vacuum serves as the cosmic speed limit for all matter and energy in the universe?
speed of light (c)
In the film Interstellar, the crew visits Miller's Planet near a supermassive black hole named Gargantua, where 1 hour on the surface equals how many years on Earth?
7 Years
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us."
Carl Sagan
Unlike the government-led Space Race 1.0, Space Race 2.0 is heavily driven by what non-governmental entities like SpaceX and Blue Origin?
private commercial space companies
What year was the Saturday Speaking Club started?
2023
What term describes the physical difference in elapsed time measured by observers due to relative velocity or gravitational potential?
time dilation
In The Martian, astronaut Mark Watney survives stranded on Mars by using his background in botany to farm what crop inside the Hab?
Potatoes
"Poyekhali!" (Let's go!), uttered as Vostok 1 launched into orbit in 1961.
Yuri Gagarin
NASA's 1960s/70s Moon landing effort was called Apollo; its 21st-century program to return humans to the Moon is named after his twin sister. What goddess is this referring to?
Artemis
On August 22nd, a Guest-Speaker Session with Moldir Malshy was held. What university was this speaker the Vice Dean of?
AlmaU
Albert Einstein published his theory of Special Relativity in 1905 and followed it in 1915 with what broader theory explaining gravity as curved spacetime?
General Relativity
What famous tagline from the 1979 horror film Alien warns: "In space, no one can..."?
"...hear you scream."
"Houston, we've had a problem here."
Jack Swigert / Jim Lovell
In 1975, the original Space Race symbolically ended when an American Apollo spacecraft docked in orbit with what Soviet spacecraft?
Soyuz
What game must never be spoken of again?
The Elevator Game
Because clocks run faster farther from heavy gravitational masses, satellites powering what everyday navigation system must constantly adjust for relativistic time differences?
GPS
In the sci-fi series The Expanse, people born and raised in low gravity in the asteroid belt and outer planets are known as what?
Belters
"The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever."
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Space Race 2.0 targets a permanent human settlement on Mars, relying heavily on fully reusable heavy-lift rockets like what massive SpaceX launch vehicle?
Starship
What was ONE of the SAT-Focused Words of the Day?
ephemeral, fabricate, aberration
In general relativity, theoretical shortcuts connecting two distant points in spacetime are known as Einstein-Rosen bridges, or more commonly by what term?
wormholes
Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey features what iconic, rogue artificial intelligence system controlling the Discovery One spacecraft?
HAL 9000