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Early unmanned spacecraft
Three-person spacecraft designed to fly to the moon
The way the ship is pointed
Another word for rocket
Two-person spacecraft design es for Earth orbit
Let go or get rid of
Rocket that launched Gemini spacecraft
Speed
When a rockets engines light, it is called a burn, because it is burning fuel
A small parachute that is used to slow down a returning spacecraft before its much-bigger main parachute is released
America’s first crewed spacecraft, designed for one person
A rocket engine that runs on liquid fuel, typically kerosene and supercold oxygen and hydrogen
The safety cable that attaches a spacewalking astronaut to the spacecraft
A Russian astronaut.(China calls its astronauts taikanauts)
A mission that has humans aboard operating the craft. Today we say ”crewed,” since both men and women fly in space
A space walk. The initials stand for extravehicular activity—and extravehicular simply means “out of the vehicle."
A Russian space station that was used 1986 through 2001. It was smaller than the International Space Station
When the nose of a spacecraft moves up or down; a 360-degree pitch would thus be a somersault
The boss of Mission Control console operator who managed the trajectory, or route, of the rocket and the Apollo spacecraft
Massive, thirty-six-story, three-stage rocket that would blast the Apollo spacecraft Moonward