Across
- 2. the branch of science that deals with celestial objects, space, and the physical universe as a whole.
- 3. Stephanie D. Wilson is a _______, someone who designs spacecraft and satellites to see that the products meet engineering principles.
- 6. Mae Carol Jemison is the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle __________.
- 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 ________.
- 9. Nichelle Nichols was an American actress best known for her portrayal of Nyota _____ in Star Trek.
- 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. A person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft like Dr. Bernard Harris Jr.
- 4. Katherine Johnson was an American ________ whose calculations of orbital mechanics at NASA were critical to the success of the first U.S. spaceflights.
- 5. Dorothy Vaughan was a mathematician and “human ________” for NASA. She was the first Black person to supervise staff at West Area Computers.
- 8. a rocket-launched spacecraft, used to make repeated journeys between the earth and earth orbit.