Why would anyone want to explore space? Amazing Words

Exploring Space Amazing Words

ascend  as - cend  When you ascend, you go up.  Astronauts ascend into space in their space shuttles.  You ascend to the second floor when you walk upstairs.

descend  de - scend  When you descend, you go down.  Astronauts descend when they come down from space in their space shuttles.  You descend when you walk downstairs.

orbit  or - bit  An orbit is the path of something like a spacecraft or planet around something in space, such as Earth or the sun.  Earth orbits the sun, and the moon orbits Earth.  We can watch TV because of the satellites that orbit the Earth.

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universe  u - ni -verse  The universe is made up of Earth, the sun, the moon, and all the other planets and stars in the sky.  Our world is a small part of the universe.  When we look at the stars, we think how huge our universe must be.

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enormous  e – nor - mous  Something that is enormous is very big and huge.  Dr. Street saw enormous clouds in the sky.  An enormous building is so big you can’t see it all at the same time.

journey  jour - ney  A journey is a long trip.  When a family drives for several days to go somewhere, they go on a journey.  An astronaut goes on a journey into space.

launch  launch  You launch something when you get it started or set it going.  We launch a boat or a plane when we get ready to go.  A space shuttle is launched when it starts up and gets into the sky.

meteorite  me – te – or - ite  A meteorite is a piece of stone from space that hits something.  Spaceships sometimes are hit by meteorites.  Some meteorites that hit Earth leave big dents in the ground.

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