ESS - Unit 9 - Space Exploration

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Across
  1. 2. Second step in the U.S. program to reach the Moon, in which an astronaut team connected with another spacecraft in orbit.
  2. 4. Successor the Hubble Space Telescope; it is planned to study the evolution of galaxies, the production of elements by stars, and the process of star and planet formation.
  3. 7. The first rover to land on Mars.
  4. 9. First spacecraft to visit Pluto in 2016 and give us the first up close pictures of the dwarf planet.
  5. 11. A 30-year NASA program with the goal of sending reuseable, manned vehicles into space.
  6. 14. The first space station designed for long term use.
  7. 15. The first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957.
  8. 16. First step in the U.S. program to reach the Moon. It orbited a piloted spacecraft around Earth and brought it back safely.
  9. 18. A privately funded American aerospace company established by amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos.
Down
  1. 1. An orbiting space satellite, construction of which began in 2001 with the cooperation of 16 nations; used for scientific and space research.
  2. 3. A space telescope that was sent into space in 1990 and has sent back a tremendous amount of information about our solar system.
  3. 5. A program of space flights undertaken by US to land a man on the moon following the Gemini missions.
  4. 6. A rover on Mars since 2012 to search for evidence of conditions suitable for development of life in the past.
  5. 8. A telescope designed to detect infrared radiation to study objects ranging from our solar system to distance regions of the universe.
  6. 10. A small robotic rover active on Mars since early 2004. Total distance traveled since landing is about 22 miles.
  7. 12. One of Musk's companies which manufacturers and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft; has a goal of enabling people to live on other planets, particularly Mars.
  8. 13. One of two probes (I and II) launched to study the distant region in space where the Sun's influence ends, and the dark recesses of interstellar space begin.
  9. 17. ______ X-Ray Observatory: Telescope in space designed to detect x-ray emissions from very hot regions of the universe.