Aircraft & Parts
It has wings and engines, carries people through the sky.
Aircraft
Sits in the front of a plane, controls it safely.
Pilot
What birds, planes, and helicopters do through the air.
Fly
A place where planes take off, land, and stay when not flying.
Airport
I’m not a ticket, but you need me to board the plane. I have your name and seat number.
Boarding pass
Tall, pointy, burns fuel to go up and carry things to space.
Rocket
Wears a special suit, lives and works in space.
Astronaut
The action when a plane leaves the ground and rises into the sky.
Take off
A long, flat path where planes speed up to take off or slow down to land.
Runway
The process when a truck pushes a plane backward from the gate.
Pushback
A general word for all vehicles that travel in outer space.
Spacecraft
Designs planes, rockets, and spacecraft using math and science.
Aerospace engineer
The action when a plane comes down, touches the ground, and stops.
Land
A tall building at the airport where people guide planes safely.
Control tower
The moment when a plane’s wheels first touch the runway during landing.
Touchdown
Man-made, circles Earth, sends signals and takes photos.
Satellite
Works at the airport, gives instructions to planes from a tall tower.
Air traffic controller
To move around a planet in a fixed, curved path (like satellites do).
Orbit
A large “home” in space where astronauts live, work, and do experiments.
Space station
The walkway between seats in a plane, where flight attendants push carts.
Aisle
Uses big rotors on top, can hover and land without a long runway.
Helicopter
Trains astronauts, tests spacecraft, and solves problems in space missions.
Flight director
The action of sending a rocket or spacecraft into the air or space.
Launch
A place on Earth where rockets are prepared and sent into space.
Launch pad
When a rocket drops its used fuel parts piece by piece after lift-off.
Stage separation