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The mission of the HSL.
What is "build a lunar cubesat"?
The mission name that landed humans on the Moon for the first time.
What was Apollo 11?
Newton's Second Law, or the equation for force.
What is F=ma?
The dimensions of a 3U cubesat, such as HuskySat-1.
What is 30cm*10cm*10cm?
The name of the first cubesat launched by the HSL.
What is HuskySat1?
The first animal to make an orbital spaceflight.
Who was Laika the dog?
A source of computer memory corruption that's especially troublesome in space.
What is ionizing radiation (or cosmic rays)?
The most common rocket propellant.
What is hydrazine?
The organization process used by the team to get tasks accomplished efficiently.
What is the Sprint process?
NASA's first manned mission.
What was Mercury?
An emerging propulsion type for small satellites. Hint: it was used by the HSL.
What is electric propulsion?
It's the only situation when an amateur radio operator may legally transmit music.
What is special about re-transmitting a signal received from a manned spacecraft?
What building is the HSL's physical space in?
What is the Aerospace Engineering Research Building?
The first spacecraft to reach the moon's surface.
What was the Soviet Union's "Luna 2"?
The main atomic element in lead-free solder.
What is tin?
The last person to step off the Moon.
Who was Gene Cernan from Apollo 17?