Black History Month: Space

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Across
  1. 2. the branch of science that deals with celestial objects, space, and the physical universe as a whole.
  2. 3. Stephanie D. Wilson is a _______, someone who designs spacecraft and satellites to see that the products meet engineering principles.
  3. 6. Mae Carol Jemison is the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle __________.
  4. 7. Benjamin Banneker with his knowledge of astronomy and mathematics, he wrote the first almanacs accurately predicting the positions of the Sun, the Moon, and the ________.
  5. 9. Nichelle Nichols was an American actress best known for her portrayal of Nyota _____ in Star Trek.
  6. 10. A system of millions or billions of stars, together with gas and dust, held together by gravitational attraction, Beth A. Brown a NASA astrophysicist studied their radiation emissions.
Down
  1. 1. A person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft like Dr. Bernard Harris Jr.
  2. 4. Katherine Johnson was an American ________ whose calculations of orbital mechanics at NASA were critical to the success of the first U.S. spaceflights.
  3. 5. Dorothy Vaughan was a mathematician and “human ________” for NASA. She was the first Black person to supervise staff at West Area Computers.
  4. 8. a rocket-launched spacecraft, used to make repeated journeys between the earth and earth orbit.