SPACE EXPLORATION
Across
- 3. Currently the only permanently manned space station.
- 7. Mobile lander that are remotely controlled by operators on Earth
- 8. America's first manned space project
- 9. How the gases in the Combustion Chamber escape
- 10. A smaller body that orbits a larger one
- 12. A telescope that uses mirrors and reflection to gather light
- 13. An economical, reuseable space vehicle, the STS
- 14. Telescopes that "see" radio waves
- 15. America's Project to build a spacecraft to carry multiple crew members
Down
- 1. A chamber where rockets burn fuel so it can eject hot gases
- 2. A man made object that orbits a planet or moon
- 4. Any rocket launch that does not gain enough speed to enter orbit
- 5. America's Moon landing program
- 6. A telescope that uses only lenses and refraction to gather light
- 11. A probe that is designed to land softly on a planet and then transmit photographs and environmental data back to Earth
- 12. A device powered by a reaction engine