Race to the Moon

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Across
  1. 5. This US city was the home of NASA's mission control center for the Apollo 11 mission
  2. 6. The first American in space
  3. 8. Nancy Roman was asked to start this program at NASA in 1959
  4. 13. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin earned a PhD in what subject?
  5. 14. Gene Kranz's role in the Apollo 11 mission
  6. 15. Buzz Aldrin was the Lunar Module ______________ on the Apollo 11 mission
  7. 17. The number of women who completed the astronaut training program "Mercury 13"
  8. 18. Margaret Hamilton and her team developed this for the Apollo spacecraft
Down
  1. 1. Melba Roy calculated the orbit and created a timetable for which NASA satellites?
  2. 2. This engineer convinced NASA that an approach called Lunar Orbit Rendezvous was the best way to send people to the moon
  3. 3. NASA's first female African American engineer
  4. 4. The name of the Apollo 11 lunar module
  5. 7. Buzz Aldrin's nickname at NASA
  6. 9. The Mercury Friendship 7 astronaut who asked for Katherine Johnson to personally check the numbers for his orbital mission
  7. 10. the aeronautics research organization that would become NASA in 1958
  8. 11. The instituion where Margaret Hamilton worked before being contracted by NASA
  9. 12. Melba Roy was in charge of a group of female NASA mathematicians known as this
  10. 16. the acronym for William Lovelace and Jerrie Cobb's Woman in Space program