Holidays In Space

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Across
  1. 2. First ISS module, launched Friday before Thanksgiving, 1998
  2. 4. “Through this unique means, I convey to you and all mankind America’s wish for peace on earth and good will to men everywhere.”
  3. 5. Landed on Mars first week of 2004
  4. 9. With 10 down, occurred on the same day, New Year’s Eve, 2009
  5. 11. Planet supposedly discovered first week of 1860
  6. 12. Soviet Launch two days into the new year, 1959
  7. 15. First spacecraft to make a flyby of Mars, launched Thanksgiving week, 1964
  8. 16. German physicist who died New Year’s Day, 1894
Down
  1. 1. English astronomer born Christmas Day, 1642
  2. 3. French launch following America's Thanksgiving, 1965
  3. 6. First observed at Cambridge University Thanksgiving week, 1967
  4. 7. Circled the moon Christmas Eve, 1968
  5. 8. First discovered through astrophotography Christmas week, 1891
  6. 10. With 9 across, occurred on the same day, New Year’s Eve, 2009
  7. 13. Since Christmas Eve, 1955, tracks Santa Claus as he travels around the world
  8. 14. Thanksgiving week, 2001, detected first planetary atmosphere outside the Solar System