Across
- 4. The biggest planet in our solar system
- 5. The shape of most orbits (hint: starts with an “e”)
- 9. These are so dense that light can’t escape them
- 10. The people who get to go to space
- 14. Astronauts go to space in these!
- 15. There are six of these stuck in the ground on the moon!
- 16. The hoops around Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
- 18. Unit to measure distance in space
- 19. The first planet
- 20. Our favorite dwarf planet
- 21. The United States space program
Down
- 1. Use this to look into space
- 2. The first person to walk on the moon
- 3. The Milky Way is our ______
- 6. Orbit the Earth and communicate information
- 7. Gives the Earth heat
- 8. The first American to orbit Earth
- 11. It circles around the Earth
- 12. A red, rocky planet
- 13. The force behind orbits
- 17. The birthplace of stars
- 22. The Sun is a ____