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- 2. The nationality of one of the cosmonauts aboard the Soyuz 28 in 1978.
- 3. (revolution) A revolution in the 1960s that attempted to increase food production worldwide and helped avert famine.
- 6. Initially built in 1942 by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly as a way to calculate firing tables during World War II and has become smaller and more powerful throughout the years.
- 9. exploration Competition between the United States and the Soviet Union dwindled down and the two countries began cooperating in the name of this area of discovery.
- 11. These silicon chips can contain over a billion transistors compared to their predecessors.
- 13. Space Station A cooperative venture sponsered by 16 countries including the United States and Russia in order to establish and maintain a working laboratory for scientific experimentation in space.
- 15. Advancements in technology and medicine such as microscopes, lasers, ultrasound, and other surgical techniques prevented and cured this condition.
- 16. Food scarcity that can be caused by natural disasters, armed conflicts, and overused soil.
- 18. Space Telescope The United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration and European Space Agency launched this telescope in 1990. It has been orbiting and recording images of objects in space for twenty years.
- 19. A worldwide network of linked computers that began in the late 1960s as a way to link scientists in order to exchange information with each other.
- 20. One of the rovers that were landed on Mars that still remains exploring on the surface of the planet, taking panoramic images.
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- 1. engineering Technology in which the genes of a living cell are modified for medical or industrial use.
- 4. The United States space shuttle program began with the launch of this orbiter in 1981.
- 5. Provided advanced imaging which can be used to detect neurological injuries and helped doctors build three-dimensional images of organs or regions of the body.
- 7. The study of heredity through research on genes that became popular in the 1980s.
- 8. Water was discovered under certain conditions on this planet; two robotic rovers were landed on it in 2004.
- 10. This planet was first flown past by the U.S. space probe New Horizons in July 2015.
- 12. The creation of identical copies of DNA that allows scientists to reproduce plans and animals that are identical to existing plants and animals.
- 14. In February of 2018, the Endeavor crew delivered this module part as one of the last pieces of the ISS. President Obama also held a conference with the Endeavor crew.
- 17. An integrated circuit that was first developed in the 1950s and are found in the majority of today’s cars, smartphones, tablets, and computers.