Space Exploration
Across
- 5. mobile landers that are controlled by humans on earth
- 7. refracts or bends light to produce an image
- 8. Three men died in a catastrophic fire during takeoff
- 11. first probe to soft land on the moon
- 13. travelling above the atmosphere then back down
- 14. Uses a a dish-shaped mirror as the main light-gathering element
Down
- 1. telescopes that "see" radio wavelengths
- 2. dock with such a satellite to refuel and resupply
- 3. device powered by a reaction engine, similar to a jet engine
- 4. vehicles that follow a one way path from Earth
- 6. reusable space vehicle
- 9. designed to land on a planet and transmits images back to earth
- 10. International Space Station
- 12. smaller body that orbits a larger one
- 15. Near Earth Asteroid Reconnaissance