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What is light travels at lightspeed / Maddie can confirm right answer?
When you look at things you're actually looking at the past. Why?
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What is FALSE?
True or false: something in a higher altitude orbit moves faster than something in a lower altitude orbit
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What is an asteroid?
Maddie led a design team last spring that designed a spacecraft that was sent to this
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What is special relativity?
This concept / topic is why one twin traveling at light speed would come back younger than the twin that stayed
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What is delta V / change in velocity?
To change orbits / do anything in space, you have to have add this to your current movement
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What is secret, top secret (no SCI access)?
Maddie possesses this level clearance now, but just started the process to get this clearance
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What is Mars is smaller = less gravitational pull?
Someone that weighs 100 kg on earth would only weigh 38 kg on Mars. Why?
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What is solid?
Maddie spent a lot of time learning rocket science, and she loves the Falcon 9 and Heavy rockets. Are they solid or liquid propellant rockets?
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What is a space sport?
Maddie's senior design course has to create this
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What is "sound waves have to move through a medium and space is a vacuum"?
Sound can't propagate in space because of this.
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What is Van Allen Belts / magnetosphere / radiation / charged particles?
We know a lot about space weather from Maddie's class last semester. What causes the aurora borealis?
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What is 'square', 'round / circular'?
Maddie's dream job is to do the type of engineering from Apollo 13. They have to fit a *this shape* peg into *this shape* hole
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What is "Maddie will explain if Kevin can't remember"?
Maddie's told Kevin a lot about how black holes work. How do they work, Kevin?
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What is a heat shield?
What prevents astronauts from disintegrating on reentry into the Earth's atmosphere?
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What is Space Systems Engineer?
This is Maddie's job title at Northrop Grumman this fall
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