CSI 101
CSI is turning 10 tomorrow, making this the club's astrological sign
What is Libra?
This June, CSI Rockets became the first student-led rocketry team to launch a hybrid rocket powered by this liquid propellant
What is Liquid Oxygen/LOX?
This legend is CSI's faculty supervisor
Who is Mike Massimino
This company recently sent 6 women to space including Katy Perry and Gayle King
What is Blue Origin?
Last year, this highly anticipated sci-fi film starring a former Columbia student was released in theaters
What is Dune: Part 2?
Last year, members of CSI were featured on this popular science and engineering YouTube channel in a video about the Citicorp building that has now garnered over 16 million views
What is Veritasium?
These two subteams are the latest addition to the Astrobiology mission
What are Astrobotany and Space Medicine?
This multi-talented CSI member designed our 2025 shirt and also serves as a CubeSat co-lead
Who is Nidhi Shah?
Scheduled for launch in April 2026, this mission will be the first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft around the Moon
What is Artemis II?
Set for release 16 years after the series' first installment, Avatar: Fire and Ash will continue the story of this fictional planet
What is Pandora?
This CSI-run podcast on all things space-related has been airing since 2018
What is This Is Rocket Science?
Each summer, CSI's outreach mission travels to the Poconos to volunteer as camp counselors for this summer camp
What is Camp Zeke?
Last year, this CSI member ran into a famous actress and singer who released her song "Replay" in 2013
Who is Dyahatou Saanon?
After a successful docking with the ISS, this company's starliner experienced thruster malfunctions and helium leaks, requiring the astronauts to stay longer than expected
What is Boeing?
This 2024 sci-fi series on Netflix is named after a famous physics problem involving the motion of celestial objects under gravitational forces
What is The Three Body Problem?
This is the name of CSI's finsta
What is csi.diary?
In May, Blue Skies travelled to Palmdale California to present this solution to the environmental and public health crisis caused by the overuse of chemical pesticides in agriculture
What is PH-LORA (Pheromonal Localized Overpopulation Regulation Aircraft)?
This CSI member once played soccer in front of a famous soccer player married to a Spice Girl
Who is Vayu Singhal?
A SpaceX rocket launched Wednesday morning carrying two missions: The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and this mission
What is Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP)?
Written by the same author as The Martian, this novel is slated for a 2026 movie adaptation starring Ryan Gosling
What is Project Hail Mary?
CSI has hosted this many astronauts, both online and in-person
What is 6?
These are the names of all 13 CSI missions
What are Behavioral Science, Blue Skies, CubeSat, High Altitude Balloons, Micro-G, Outreach, RASC-AL, RoboGlove, Rockets, Astrobiology, Space Manufacturing, Space Policy, and SUITS?
In middle school, this CSI member did a news segment on a famous animated character known for his signature catchphrase "Kachow!"
Who is Moises Mata?
The Russian biological research satellite that returned to Earths surface on sept 19 carrying 75 mice and over 1500 flies has been nicknamed after this bible story
What is Noah's Ark?
This upcoming Disney movie shares a name with a Greek God and will be the third installment in a series of sci-fi films that take place in "The Grid"
What is Tron: Ares?