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Turboprop.
(The song features a Viscount turboprop plane landing on a runway with lyrics referring to a return return flight from Miami on a British Overseas Airways Corporation airliner.)
This "super" engine class features prominently in the background of the 1968 "The White Album" hit, "Back in the U.S.S.R." by The Beatles.
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"Rocket Man" by Elton John
Released April 17th, 1972, this classic reminds us: "Mars ain't the kinda place to raise your kids."
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Top Gun
This movie is about a Naval fighter pilot sent to flight school.
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Sputnik
The launch of this satellite sparked the start of the space race and resulted in a drastic increase in research and development in the aerospace industry.
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Who are Dr. Akin and Dr. Bowden?
These two professors are married to each other.
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Landing Gear (retraction)
These go bump in the flight.
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"Life on Mars?" by David Bowie
Posing a question asked throughout the ages, this song culminated the artist's Ziggy Stardust period and was released June 22, 1973. In the liner notes, the artist writes "inspired by Frankie," as the tune is a actually a parody of Frank Sinatra's "My Way," which competitor Paul Anka wrote using a song which the artist had already translated, "Comme d'habitude."
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Apollo 13
“Houston, we have a problem.” This movie quote is slightly modified from what was actually said during the NASA mission that serves as this movie’s title.
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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
The Apollo 11 was first crewed mission to land on the moon. The astronauts that landed and walked on the moon were _____.
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Who is Dr. Lee?
This professor has the highest rating on PlanetTerp out of all aerospace professors.
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Rivet Gun
The enthralling maker of this sound probably stuck your seat, and might stick you to the edge of it. (2:35)
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"Fly Me to the Moon" by Frank Sinatra
This 1954 hit requests a translunar injection and information regarding the fourth and fifth planets from the sun.
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Fortran
As depicted in the movie Hidden Figures, Dorothy Vaughan teaches herself this programming language in order to work with the IBM machine.
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July 29, 1958
NASA was established on this date after President Eisenhower had signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act.
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Who is Dr. Wereley?
This professor has Canadian roots.
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10,000 ft
These chimes indicate a "relieving" altitude for those in need of relief. What is that altitude?
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"Space Oddity" by David Bowie
"Take your protein pills and put your helmet on," commands this 1969 classic about an ill-fated space mission.
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Pathfinder
In The Martian, astronaut Mark Watney retrieves this probe, which actually landed on Mars on July 4, 1997, to communicate with NASA.
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The Saturn 5
This rocket is the largest and heaviest rocket to ever be successfully launched.
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Who is Dr. Jones?
This professor spent a semester studying at the Technion in Haifa.
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Quindar Tones (two sine waves: "ontro" @ 2.525 kHz and "outro" @ 2.475 kHz both for 250 milliseconds). Named after the manufacturer, the tones "key" comms during a PTT (Push-to-talk) sequence to activate transmission. 2.525 kHz at push, 2.475 kHz at release.
These special tones come in "intro"/"outro" pairs between flight and CapCom.
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"New Normal" by Khalid
This song debuted at the successful conclusion of Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic's suborbital Unity22 mission on July 11, 2021. Sings the artist, "How fast the time goes, living in the moment, taking you for granted, it's a _________."
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Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Gordon Cooper, Wally Schirra, Deke Slayton, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter
The film The Right Stuff follows the 7 military pilots selected to become astronauts for Project Mercury. These 7 astronauts were ________.
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Yuri Gagarin
He was the first human to orbit Earth.
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Who is Dr. Sanner?
This professor was into drama club in high school.
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