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- 2. The space shuttle program ended on July 21, 2011, when this shuttle landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
- 6. A worldwide network of linked computers known as the
- 9. Surgeons rarely performed operations on sensitive areas such as this organ or the brain.
- 10. Agricultural scientists around the world started this campaign in an attempt to increase food production worldwide
- 11. NASA made history when New Horizons, a U.S. space probe, flew by this planet and one of its moons.
- 12. The crew of this mission were the first international crew into space.
- 15. The Russian Space Station
- 17. United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- 18. The internet enables these groups to influence one another more easily and rapidly than ever before.
- 19. This country has the has the highest percentage of Internet users
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- 1. Liquid water exists on this planet under certain conditions.
- 3. Commonly known as a "chip", they are found in the majority of electrical devices like cars, smartphones, and tablets.
- 4. The race between the United States and the Soviet Union to explore space
- 5. U.S. space shuttle program began in 1981 with the launch of this space shuttle
- 7. The first electronic computer was built by this person and John Mauchly as a way to calculate firing tables during World War II.
- 8. These are hereditary units that cause specific traits, like eye color, in every living organism.
- 13. Delivered Tranquility, one of the last pieces of the space station.
- 14. This technology has become essential in many industries, and millions of people around the globe have them in their homes.
- 16. This is the creation of identical copies of DNA, the chemical chains of genes that determine heredity.
- 20. The acronym for the project that came together in 1993 when the United States and Russia agreed to merge their individual space station programs.