The Moon & Space Exploration

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Across
  1. 2. Number of the first mission to put man on the moon
  2. 5. Improved the telescope and demonstrated Copernican theory
  3. 6. Missions that put man on the moon
  4. 8. A period of rotation synchronous with that of the Earth's rotation
  5. 14. In which the sun is obscured by the moon (2 words)
  6. 18. Probes sent to study Mars
Down
  1. 1. Process by which a planet is transformed so as to resemble the Earth
  2. 3. Name of the probe that has almost left our solar system
  3. 4. The Moon's gravitational pull on the Earth causes these
  4. 7. German astronomer who discovered the laws of orbital motion
  5. 9. A group of stars that form a shape or pattern
  6. 10. Artificial body placed in orbit around the Earth or another planet
  7. 11. Second full moon of the month (2 words)
  8. 12. Space station owned by the USA, Russia, Japan, Canada and Europe (abbr.)
  9. 13. Canada's space agency (abbr.)
  10. 15. A deviation from a vertical or horizontal line, plane, position or direction
  11. 16. Unmanned exploratory spacecraft designed to transit information about its environment
  12. 17. Amount of phases the Moon has