Reaching for the Moon

2. The people who work for an organization.
6. A task or job given to a person.
7. The activity or science of designing, building, and flying aircraft.
11. A person whose job was to perform mathematical calculations, often by hand, before electronic computers were widely used.
13. The government agency that studies space, airplanes, and spaceflight. NASA replaced NACA in 1958.
15. The science and practice of designing and operating aircraft.
16. A type of mathematics that uses numbers, equations, and graphs to study shapes, movement, and space.
17. The process of solving a problem by using mathematical calculations.

1. The process of ending separation and allowing people from different racial groups to share schools, workplaces, and public spaces.
2. A move to a job with greater responsibility, authority, or status.
3. The process of checking information or calculations to make sure they are correct.
4. The first artificial satellite to orbit Earth, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.
5. Careful study used to discover information, solve problems, or understand something better.
8. An organized system or organization, such as a school, government agency, or research center.
9. The forced separation of people based on race.
10. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, a government organization that studied airplanes and flight before NASA was created.
12. A research facility in Virginia where scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and other workers studied flight and space travel.
14. The path that a moving object follows through the air or through space.