Flight and Space Travel
Across
- 5. devices that convert information into electric signals
- 9. the study of flight
- 10. the body, or central structure, of the airplane
- 11. NASA shuttle that blew up on takeoff in 1986
- 13. propels the plane forward
- 15. Intercontinental ballistic missles abbreviation
- 16. the pilot uses this to change the side-to-side movement of the plane
- 17. the difference in pressure that pushes the wing upward
Down
- 1. pilots use these to control pitch of the airplane
- 2. tail section of the plane
- 3. simple tools that astronomers use to discover more about the universe
- 4. abbreviation for National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- 6. created by daVinci; he thought it would make humans fly
- 7. force caused by friction in the air; slows it down
- 8. the first man-made satellite
- 12. in flight, the constant downward pull from gravity
- 14. gravitationally curved path of an object in space