Travel into space
Across
- 2. symbol H, an element, the lightest gas
- 4. a spacecraft that is driven by a rocket
- 9. a system of millions or billions of stars
- 10. the point in the orbit of a planet, asteroid, or comet at which it is furthest from the sun
- 11. a person trained to travel in a spacecraft
- 14. a suit so astronauts can survive in space
- 15. a person who designs, builds, or maintains engines, machines, or structures
Down
- 1. Objects made of frozen gases, rock and dust that orbit the Sun
- 3. Small particles of matter in space
- 5. the collection of eight planets and their moons in orbit round the sun
- 6. branch of science which deals with space
- 7. the planet on which we live
- 8. national aeronautics and space administration
- 11. a small rocky body orbiting the sun
- 12. a celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit round a star
- 13. when one celestial body blocks light from reaching another by moving between it and its light source
- 16. the force that pulls objects towards each other