"Machines, Not People, Should Be Exploring the Stars For Now". (pp 432 -435)
Across
- 1. The famous _____ telescope cost $14 billion but has allowed us to see distant galaxies in our accelerating universe.
- 3. In his counterargument, Lincoln says that humans are "_____. They need food, water, and air."
- 7. a popular movie starring actor Matt Damon who played an astronaut stranded on Mars: "The ____"
- 9. a remote-controlled motor vehicle designed to travel on the surface of Mars; cost $2.5 billion to create
- 11. Manned programs cost much _____ than robotic missions.
- 12. America's government agency responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research
- 13. Lincoln predicts that the famous _____ satellite may one day identify a distant hospitable planet.
- 14. " The International Space Station cost about $170 _______ dollars" to build.
- 15. vocabulary word that describes a place that is difficult to live in (like Mars)
- 18. physicist/author of the op-ed article "Machines, Not People, Should Be Exploring the Stars For Now"
Down
- 2. Lincoln believes we can _____ (investigate) space without actually going there.
- 4. an American astronaut; third man to travel in space; died in April of 2016
- 5. Manned missions to Mars may cost about $1 _____ dollars!
- 6. vocabulary word that means "very important"
- 8. Don Lincoln argues that ____, not humans, should be primarily exploring space for now.
- 10. "______ programs can cost tens or hundreds of times more than the robotic missions."
- 16. a space exploration company founded by entrepreneur Elon Musk
- 17. vocabulary word for a person who is the first to explore a place