Mae Jemison: Space Scientist Vocabulary

Strategy Review/ Modeling After receiving her Bachelor of Science degree from Stanford, Mae enrolled at Cornell University Medical College in New York. To figure out this word, Ill look for word parts I know. I see the word roll and the word part en at the beginning. I see that the word ends with –ed, an ending for many past tense verbs. It is pronounced d. Putting these parts together, I get ehn ROHLD. I get the sense that this word means she begins going to medical school.

astronaut A person trained to participate in the flight of a spacecraft

launches puts into action by force

mission An operation that is assigned to achieve certain goals

orbit the path of a spacecraft around the earth

reusable able to be used again

satellite a device made to orbit the earth while performing a task

space shuttle A spacecraft launched like a rocket that can return to earth and land like a plane

specialist one who becomes an expert in a particular field

weightlessness The condition of being without weight