Rocketry Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. L________ Module, or LM, a two-part, totally self-contained spacecraft that used its own rockets to land on and take off from the surface of the moon, and even served as its own launch pad
  2. 5. The lunar module pilot Buzz ____ was the second person to step on the moon
  3. 8. Neil _______________ became the first person to step onto the
  4. 11. Apollo 11 effectively ended the Space _____ and fulfilled a national goal proposed in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy
  5. 16. The H______Space Telescope is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation.
  6. 17. S__________ Module, supplying electricity, maneuvering power and thrust to get home from lunar orbit, and water to the spacecraft
  7. 19. Gravity also gets weaker with d________. So, the closer objects are to each other, the stronger their gravitational pull is.
  8. 20. T_______ is the force the engines produce to push the rocket off the ground
  9. 21. The Apollo Lunar Module Eagle landed on the moon on J____ 20, 1969
  10. 22. The Apollo Missions to the moon were launched by the powerful _______ V Rocket
  11. 23. The conical C________ Module where the crew ate and slept on its way to the moon and home
  12. 25. Command module pilot Michael __________ flew the Command Module Columbia alone in lunar orbit while they were on the Moon's surface
  13. 26. The gravitational pull of the m_______ pulls the seas towards it, causing the ocean tides.
Down
  1. 1. The Saturn V Rocket had three s______.
  2. 3. "The E_____ has Landed"
  3. 4. The force of gravity keeps all of the planets in _____ around the sun.
  4. 6. The more mass an object has, the g________ the force of attraction.
  5. 7. Gravity: An invisible f______ that pulls objects toward each other
  6. 9. The force of attraction between all masses in the universe.
  7. 10. The Space _________ was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
  8. 12. Gravity is the force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its c_____.
  9. 13. Newton’s 1st Law: An object at rest tends to stay at r_____.
  10. 14. Sir Isaac ___________ (1642-1727), mathematician and physicist, one of the foremost scientific intellects of all time.
  11. 15. "one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for ________."
  12. 18. Apollo 11 was launched by a Saturn V rocket from K_________ Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida
  13. 24. Your rocket should be _____________: The least resistance through the air.