Rocket Science

7. a point from which the weight of a body or system may be considered to act. In uniform gravity it is the same as the center of mass.
9. a small rocket engine on a spacecraft, used to make alterations in its flight path or altitude.
10. pull (someone or something) along forcefully, roughly, or with difficulty.
11. the speed of something in a given direction
12. push (something or someone) suddenly or violently in the specified direction.
14. American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket
15. consisting of laminae.
16. behavior of objects for which all existing forces are not balanced
17. (of air or water) moving unsteadily or violently

1. point where the total sum of a pressure field acts on a body, causing a force to act through that point.
2. a cylindrical projectile that can be propelled to a great height or distance by the combustion of its contents, used typically as a firework or signal.
3. an object in motion tends to stay in motion unless an external force acts upon it.
4. takeoff, especially the vertical takeoff of a rocket or helicopter
5. if one object exerts a force on another object, the the second object exerts a force of equal strength in the opposite direction on the first object.
6. a substance that propels something.
8. German-American aerospace engineer and space architect.
13. (power) into a set of letter-designated ranges, from ¼A up to O as the largest.