Across
- 3. A fixed or adjustable vane or airfoil affixed longitudinally to an aerodynamically or ballistically designed body for stabilizing purposes.
- 4. The path of an object moving through space.
- 6. A vehicle for driving over rough terrain.
- 11. Fine, greyish dust and soil that covers the surface of the moon. Formed by constant pounding of the surface by impacts, the regolith can be between 2 meters and 20 meters deep.
- 12. Large, dark plains formed by volcanic eruptions. Latin for "seas," early astronomers thought these dark areas on the moon were filled with water. 16% of the moon's surface is covered in maria.
- 15. A vector quantity that includes the speed and direction of an object.
- 16. Spacecraft A vehicle capable of sustaining a person above the terrestrial atmosphere.
Down
- 1. A quantity with both magnitude and direction, such as velocity, acceleration, thrust, lift, drag, momentum, or torque.
- 2. A state of very weak gravity.
- 5. The arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area.
- 7. A long, narrow valley on the surface of the moon. These grooves or channels can be several kilometers wide and hundreds of kilometers long.
- 8. In the U.S., a person who rides in a space vehicle.
- 9. The mechanical coupling of two or more human-made orbiting objects.
- 10. A chemical mixture that is burned to produce thrust.
- 11. A rille. Rilles are usually named for the craters they are close to. Example: Rima Cavendish is a rille that runs near the Cavendish crater.
- 13. The science of getting ships, aircraft, or spacecraft from place to place.
- 14. The locus of all points in the plane at which the sum of the distances from a fixed pair of points is a given constant.