Airplanes
True or false: Airplanes remain in the Earth's atmosphere
True
The name of the middle part of a rocket that contains the components it needs to run
Body
The name of the first man to walk on the moon
Neil Armstrong
The names of all four teams
Chicken Jockey, Fantastic Four, High Flyers, Klaylees
The meaning of the prefix "aero" in "aerospace"
Air
The people most commonly credited with inventing the airplane
The Wright brothers (Wilbur and Orville)
The name of the pointy top of a rocket that allows it to move forward easily
Nose cone
The two countries that competed in the Space Race
United States and Soviet Union
Tello
The two main types of aircraft that aerospace engineers work with
Airplanes and rockets
The year the first successful airplane was produced
1903
The component of a rocket that helps it fly straight
Fins
A place astronauts might stay, with the initials ISS
International Space Station
The type of rocket we made on Monday
Straw rocket
Altimeter
The four key forces acting upon an airplane that allow it to fly
Lift, weight, drag, and thrust
The component of a rocket that generates thrust
Fuel
The name of the best-known space telescope
Hubble Space Telescope
The type of rocket we made on Tuesday
Balloon rocket
True or false: Helicopter blades must remain straight
False (helicopters require tilted blades)
Airfoil
NASA's largest ever rocket, the Saturn V, weighed about as much as this many elephants
400
The approximate number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy
100 billion
How the length of the straw affects the distance a straw rocket travels (according to the majority of our results)
Longer straw = greater distance
The scientific name of the phenomenon that allows a boomerang to return to the thrower
Gyroscopic precession