"Machines, Not People, Should Be Exploring the Stars For Now". (pp 432 -435)

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