Mae Jemison: Space Scientist

Jeff C. (United States of America)
Houghton-Mifflin Theme 2 Selection 4
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  1. applicant
    a person who requests or seeks something
  2. astronaut
    a person trained to travel in a spacecraft
  3. chemical engineering
    the branch of engineering that is concerned with the design and construction and operation of the plants and machinery used in industrial chemical processes
  4. demanding
    requiring more than usually expected or thought due
  5. embassy
    a building where diplomats live or work
  6. intensely
    in an extreme manner
  7. launch
    propel with force
  8. meditation
    continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject
  9. mission
    an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters
  10. orbit
    the path of a celestial body in its revolution about another
  11. reusable
    capable of being used again
  12. satellite
    any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star
  13. space shuttle
    a reusable spacecraft with wings for a controlled descent through the Earth's atmosphere
  14. specialist
    an expert devoted to one occupation or branch of learning
  15. trailblazer
    an innovator or pioneer in a field
  16. weightlessness
    the property of being comparatively small in weight
Created on Wed Nov 19 22:12:22 EST 2008

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