NASA- Space Vocabulary
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1. force- A push or pull on an object.
2. drag- The force due to air that slows down the plane as it moves forward.
3. thrust- The force of the engine, which pushes a plane forward.
4. gravity- The force of attraction between two objects (such as the force between you and the Earth).
5. lift- The force that keeps an airplane up due to the flow of air over and under the wings.
6. mach- A number that compares an airplane’s speed to the speed of sound 750 mph. (At Mach 2, a plane goes twice the speed of sound).
7. supersonic- A term that indicates motion faster than the speed of sound (more than Mach 1 but less than Mach 5).
8. engineer- A person trained to design, construct, and operate mechanical or electrical instruments
9. ration- A fixed amount of food or water when the supply is limited.
10. gyroscope - A spinning wheel that tends to maintain its direction in space
11. trajectory -The curve of the path of a spacecraft in flight
12. velocity - The speed and direction of an object.
13. momentum - The tendency of a moving object to keep moving.
14. altitude - The height above sea level.
15. Latitude - The distance north and south from the Equator, expressed in degrees.
16. Longitude - The distance east and west from Greenwich, England, expressed in degrees.
17. Infrared - A type of light that can’t be seen by humans but that instruments can use to measure the
heat differences between objects.
18. Mission - A particular task that a person or group is to perform.
19. Remote - Far away.
Tuesday- copy definitions
Wednesday- 10. sentences 1 vocab word per sentence
Thursday-crossword puzzle
Other words… but won’t be tested
Fuselage - The part of a plane which holds people and cargo and to which the wings and tail are attached.
Airfoil - The shape of a wing’s cross-section (a slice across the wing), designed to create as much lift and as little drag as possible.
Rudder - The parts of the tail surfaces that control a plane’s yaw (its left and right turning).
Air pressure - The force of air spread over a surface; it can be caused by the weight of the atmosphere above or by moving through the atmosphere.
