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Mae JemisonSpace Scientist

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• Gail Sakurai

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Mae Jemison
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Key Vocabulary

• astronaut specialist
• launches weightlessness
• mission artificial
• orbit
• reusable
• satellite
• space shuttle

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Space Is the PlacePage 113

• Time to practice your vocabulary words. Turn to
  page 113.
• Good Luck!
• Answers

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Topic Main Idea
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Time to read!Segment 1

• Open Your Text Books to page 210

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astronaut

• A person trained to participate in the flight of
  a spacecraft.
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launches

• puts into action by force.
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mission

• An operation that is assigned to achieve certain
  goals.
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orbit

• The path of a spacecraft around the earth.
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reusable

• Able to be used again.
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satellite

• A device made to orbit the earth while performing
  a task.
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space shuttle

• A spacecraft launched like a rocket that can
  return to earth and land like a plane.
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specialist

• One who becomes an expert in a particular field.
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weightlessness

• The condition of being without weight.
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artificial

• Created by humans rather than occurring in
  nature.
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Key Vocabulary

• astronaut specialist
• launches weightlessness
• mission artificial
• orbit
• reusable
• satellite
• space shuttle

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Key Vocabulary

• astronaut specialist
• launches weightlessness
• mission artificial
• orbit
• reusable
• satellite
• space shuttle