Hidden Figures and Space Exploration

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Across
  1. 3. Information collected and analysed during missions.
  2. 8. A person who writes computer code.
  3. 11. The path an object follows around a planet or star.
  4. 13. First human to travel into space.
  5. 14. First person to walk on the Moon.
  6. 15. First satellite launched into space by the Soviet Union in 1957.
  7. 16. NASA's first African American female engineer.
Down
  1. 1. The process of planning and directing a spacecraft's journey.
  2. 2. NASA mathematician who calculated flight paths and was featured in Hidden Figures.
  3. 4. A person trained to travel and work in space.
  4. 5. The United States space agency.
  5. 6. The competition between the United States and Soviet Union to explore space.
  6. 7. Apollo 11 astronaut who walked on the Moon after Neil Armstrong.
  7. 9. NASA program that sent the first Americans into space.
  8. 10. Russian term for an astronaut.
  9. 12. A person who designs and builds machines or structures.
  10. 17. Program that landed humans on the Moon.