Jet Engine Development
This was the first jet aircraft to enter military service near the end of WW2.
What is the Me 262?
This was the main benefit of jet airliners over propellor-driven airliners.
What is speed?
This was the first satellite to orbit Earth.
What is Sputnik?
This event ended the "Space Race".
What was Neil Armstrong walking on the moon?
This was the first of six Space Shuttles to enter service with NASA.
What was the Columbia?
This jet engine component is responsible for compressing air before entering the combustion chamber.
What is an air compressor?
This was the first "successful" airliner and is widely considered to have started the Jet Age.
What is the Boeing 707?
This was the first American astronaut to fly in space.
Who was Alan Shepard?
This was the first U.S. space station.
What was Skylab?
This was a major feature of the Shuttle Program over Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo.
What was reusability?
This was a major issue that engine designers faced when trying to make the combustion chamber work.
What is melting?
This is the first jet airliner to enter service.
What is the De Havilland Comet?
This space program allowed American astronauts to practice EVAs.
What was the Gemini Program?
This device allowed two vehicles to dock with each other in orbit.
What is an airlock?
This Space Shuttle was lost due to an O-Ring failure in its solid rocket booster (SRB).
What was Challenger?
This law states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's Third Law?
This wing design allowed aircraft to travel at higher speeds by reducing the formation of shockwaves on the wings.
What is a swept wing?
This is one thing that all the Mercury astronauts had in common.
What is military service?
This was the primary mission of Skylab.
What is long durations in space?
The part of the "stack" that looks most like an airliner.
What is the orbiter?
This jet engine component is responsible for generating power to turn the compressor.
What is a turbine?
This was a major hurdle for jet aircraft as they got faster and faster.
What was the sound barrier?
This was a job at NASA during the Space Race that involved calculating orbital trajectories.
What was a computer?
This event marked the first collaborative effort between the Soviet Union and the United States in space.
What was the Apollo–Soyuz mission?
This system in the Space Shuttle replaces manual controls with computers that help the pilot control the shuttle more easily and safely.
What is Fly-by-Wire?