Rockets
This was the first satellite in orbit.
What is Sputnik?
Pluto, Eris, Ceres, Makemake, and Haumea are all __________.
What are dwarf planets?
The engineering discipline that deals with objects that fly.
What is Aerospace Engineering?
The first person to set foot on the moon.
Neil Armstrong
This energy is captured and stored from the sun.
What is solar energy?
This was the rocket that took American crews to the moon.
What is the Saturn V?
This planet was the first discovered with the aid of a telescope.
What is Uranus?
The engineering discipline that focuses on producing power.
What is Mechanical Engineering?
The first person to break the sound barrier.
Who is Chuck Yeager?
The movement of these particles is what causes electricity.
What is an electron?
This space shuttle suffered catastrophic failure during launch in 1986.
What is the Challenger Space Shuttle?
These objects are primarily made of ice and travel in oblong orbits around the sun.
What are comets?
Objects traveling Mach 5 or greater.
What are hypersonics?
The first man in space.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
The study of energy.
What is Physics?
This is a rocket engine's version of MPG.
What is Specific Impulse?
This is the hottest planet in our solar system.
What is Venus?
The space shuttle utilized this feature to keep from overheating during reentry.
What are ceramic tiles?
The woman on the Artemis 2 mission.
Who is Christina Koch?
These are the components of the fire triangle.
What are heat, fuel, and oxygen?
The flame coming out of a rocket engine is supersonic because of the geometry of this component.
What is a converging-diverging nozzle?
This is the only other celestial body with bodies of liquid on it's surface besides Earth.
What is Titan?
These are the four forces that affect an object in flight.
What are lift, drag, weight, and thrust?
The first American woman in space.
Who is Sally Ride?
The primary method that humans lose weight through.
What is breathing?