Space Exploration Vocabulary

a person trained to travel to space and perform a specific job

• astronaut

• catanaut

• specialist

• probe

to travel for the purpose of discovery

• exploration

• navigation

• communication

A vehicle sponsored by sixteen nations that circles the earth while astronauts living on board carry out

experiments

• International Space Station

• Space Shuttle

• Space Probe

• Space Rocket

A US government agency in charge of the space program

• NASA

• JPL

• FDA

• ABSS

a building that contains one or more telescopes used to observe stars and planets

• observatory

• telescope

• dish field

• planetarium

an unmanned spacecraft designed to send information back to Earth

• satellite

• shuttle

• space station

• probe

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a reusable spacecraft that used rockets to launch but could land like a plane when returning to Earth

• satellite

• space shuttle

• space station

• probe

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a machine that forces exhaustion gas in one direction to move in the opposite direction

• rocket

• booster

• probe

• satellite

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A 20-year competition of space exploration between the United States and former Soviet Union

• space race

• astro race

• moon race

• cold war

an item that was originally developed for use in space but has uses on Earth

• space spinoff

• space shuttle

• space program