Space Exploration

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  1. 4. Was reclassified in 2006 as a dwarf planet.
  2. 5. The planet which we live on.
  3. 7. The planet famous for its large rings.
  4. 8. Furthest planet away from the sun.
  5. 10. The saturn ______ rocket was used to send people in to space between 1967 and 1973 by the USA.
  6. 12. The number of astronauts that can live on the international space station at one time.
  7. 14. The NASA space shuttle which exploded 73 seconds into its flight, killing all the astronauts on board.
  8. 16. The closest planet to the Sun.
  9. 18. Known as the 'Red Planet'.
  10. 19. Soviet astronauts are called this.
  11. 22. The Apollo mission to the moon which had to be aborted.
  12. 23. The first Apollo mission that successfully landed people on the moon.
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  1. 1. For the _________ of all. NASA's motto.
  2. 2. Helen _________. The first British person in space. Visited the Mir space station in 1991.
  3. 3. _________ 1. The space probe currently furthest away from the Earth - 11.7 billion miles (as of 2013).
  4. 4. A spacecraft piloted by remote control. Many of these have been sent into outer space to take pictures and even land on some planets in the solar system.
  5. 6. The largest planet.
  6. 7. The spacecraft designed for the Soviet space program and still in use today.
  7. 9. The first orbiter of the space shuttle system. It was named after the space ship in Star Trek.
  8. 11. __________ space station (ISS) a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit.
  9. 13. The name of the car sized rover (see picture) which landed on Mars to explore in 2012 and is still operational today (Feb, 2019).
  10. 15. Neil __________. The first man on the moon.
  11. 17. _________ Wolowitz. The fictional character from the TV series 'The Big Bang Theory' who went to the International Space Station.
  12. 20. Tim __________. The first British person to visit the international space station in 2015.
  13. 21. A cloud of gas and dust in space.