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| During this conflict, a landing was made at Hound Bay by Wasp aircraft as part of Operation Paraquet, which was part of the larger Operation Corporate. Dassault- Breguet Super Étendard's carried out bombings that destroyed the (+) Sheffield during this conflict, in which Exocet missiles made their military debut. Leopoldo Galtieri led the losing side of this war in which anti-aircraft guns were used by the (*) General Belgrano. For the point, name 1982 war fought off the coast of Argentina. | Falklands War (accept Guerra de las Malvinas) |
| An Operations and Checkout Building within this complex's Industrial Area was where two altitude chambers were used to analyze life support systems of the Apollo program. Pads 39A, 39B, and 39C are part of this complex found on (+) Merritt Island. Project Mercury and Project Gemini had all their launches conducted from this complex adjacent to an installation at (*) Cape Canaveral. For the point, what is this Florida space center, named for a president? | John F. Kennedy Space Center (accept KSC; accept NASA Launch Operations Center) |
| The five known witnesses of an event carried out by these people included Adam Etheridge and John T. Daniels. This group made one key decision regarding order by a coin toss. (+) Spruce and aluminum materials were used in the design of one vehicle designed by these people, who made a trip through the Kill Devil Hills. An Air Force Base in (*) Dayton, Ohio is partly named for these people, who traveled 120 feet during a 12-second effort in 1903. For the point, name these brothers who made a flight around Kitty Hawk. | Wright brothers (or Wrights; accept Wilbur and Orville Wright in either order) |
| Roger L. Easton was the main developer of this technology, made free for non- military use following the crash of Korean Airlines Flight 007. The Selective Availability feature of this project was intended to disrupt missiles from (+) accurately reaching targets by providing random 100-meter wide variations. Established by the (*) Defense Department in 1973, this project allows for the sharing of time information through the use of 24 operating satellites. For the point, name this widely used navigation system. | Navstar Global Positioning System (accept Navstar GPS) |
| When working on this film, its director said that it was partly based on the idea of "how democracies get turned into dictatorships." One vehicle in this film had a design inspired by the shape of an olive attached to a (+) bitten hamburger. Ted Kennedy's belief in the recklessness of one initiative may have inspired the nicknaming of an anti-ICBM missile defense program after this movie. (*) SpaceX's Falcon 9 has a name inspired by a starship in this film. The Strategic Defense Initiative became popularly known by the name of, for the point, what film in which the Millennium Falcon is introduced? | Star Wars (accept Star Wars: Episode IV [[Four]] - A New Hope; accept Star Wars: A New Hope before "anti-ICBM" and prompt after; prompt on "Episode IV") |
| On February 7, 1984, Bruce McCandless II [[the Second]] was the first to accomplish a variety of this task, which China became the third country to accomplish during Shenzhou 7. On June 3, 1965, (+) Ed White became the first American to accomplish this feat. First accomplished during the Voskhod 2 by Alexei Leonov, this feat lasted slightly longer than 12 minutes. Umbilical (*) cables are often used in the tethered variety of this practice, which can occur on the exterior of the ISS. Exiting out of a hatch allows one to engage in, for the point, what activity? | Spacewalks (accept Extravehicular activity; accept EVA; accept clear knowledge equivalents and word forms; do not accept or prompt on "moonwalk") |
| Olivier Vietti-Teppa and Adrian Nicholas tested the feasibility of one of these items that was proposed in the Codex Atlanticus. Louis-Sébastien Lenormand is considered the creator of the modern version of these items, one of which he tested at (+) Montpellier observatory. In 1971, a man carrying a bomb asked for a $200,000 ransom and one of these objects, which he used after that (*) hijacking. D.B. Cooper used one of these objects, often made of nylon and canvas. For the point, name this item that allows fighter pilots to escape from the sky and descend safely. | Parachutes |
| Larkin Kerwin was the first president of a space body in this country and coined the name of a technology that worked in tandem with the OBSS. The John H. Chapman Space Centre is found in this country, which lends its name to a set of (+) orbiter arms used to capture payloads. A 1990 Space Agency Act established a major aeronautics body in this country that has run a BioMass Production Lab at (*) McGill University. For the point, name this northern neighbor of the country containing NASA. | Canada (accept Canadarm; accept Canadian Space Agency) |