Across
- 1. the planet that has rings round it
- 5. what some people joke that the moon is made of
- 6. the state you are in outside the Earth's atmosphere
- 7. the surname of the first man on the moon (his first name was Neil)
- 8. they circle the Earth so that phones and TV stations work
- 11. a lump of rock that travels through space, sometimes falling on the Earth (thought to be responsible for the extinction of dinosaurs)
- 12. rotates around the Earth
- 13. the largest planet
- 15. what you get if you are in the sun too much
- 16. a collection of thousands of stars
Down
- 2. needed to launch a spaceship
- 3. when one planet or moon moves in front of another, blocking it out
- 4. what you look through to make things in the sky bigger
- 9. someone who pilots a spaceship
- 10. lots of this when there is good weather
- 14. the force that stops us floating off into space
