May - space and space travel
Across
- 4. what kind if star is the sun? (fill in as all one word - no spaces between the words)
- 8. The name of the astronomer who put forward the theory that the planets revolve around the sun. (last name)
- 9. The first female engineer at NASA (last name).
- 11. The first living being in orbit (a dog).
- 16. The most prominent kind of radiation emitted by the sun (over 99%).
- 17. Which scientist coined the term "black hole"? (after their existence was predicted by Einstein)
- 19. The largest planet in the solar system.
- 20. The year of the moon landing. (first men on the moon).
Down
- 1. The inventor of rocket fuel.(last name)
- 2. The astronomer who defined planetary motion and orbits. (last name)
- 3. The gas that makes up over 94% of Saturn.
- 5. One of the largest measurements of distance commonly used in reference to space travel(about 3.0857 x 10^16 m)
- 6. The largest moon in the solar system (one of Jupiter's moons).
- 7. The first woman in space - 1937(last name).
- 10. The name of the first mars rover.
- 12. The name of the spacecraft that took Neil Armstrong to the moon. (includes the number)
- 13. The planet with the weakest gravitational field strength.
- 14. what is at the centre of a black hole?
- 15. The planet with the longest day (takes the longest to complete a rotation).
- 18. How many moons does Jupiter have?