Space Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. To release space craft into space
  2. 7. U.S. space craft designed to carry men to the moon and back
  3. 8. a group of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity
  4. 10. Backwards counting before a rocket launching takes place
  5. 13. Space as a whole or an aircraft industry
  6. 15. A celestial body moving around the sun
  7. 16. A scientist who studies space
  8. 18. A gaseous envelope surrounding the earth
  9. 20. 3rd planet from the sun
  10. 21. Closest planet to the sun
  11. 22. 5th planet from the sun
Down
  1. 1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  2. 2. 5.88 trillion miles
  3. 4. A sealed container where a person or animal can ride into space at very high altitudes
  4. 5. 4th planet from the sun
  5. 6. The first space shuttle to orbit and return to earth
  6. 9. A rocket engine used as the main source for takeoff in a rocket or missile
  7. 10. A Russian or Soviet astronaut
  8. 11. Being between the planets or a planet and the sun
  9. 12. The force of attraction by which bodies in space tend to fall toward the center of the earth
  10. 14. An aircraft becoming airborne
  11. 15. A bowl shaped indentation with a raised rim make by a meteoroid
  12. 17. Ofter remnants of a comet traveling through space
  13. 19. When one object in space blocks the view of another object in space
  14. 21. a meteoroid that has entered earths atmosphere