SPACE

2. Allen belt each of two regions of intense radiation partly surrounding the earth at heights of several thousand kilometers
3. cargo of rocket
7. a person trained to travel in space
10. a compartment for the pilot and sometimes also the crew in an aircraft or spacecraft
11. a group of stars forming a recognizable pattern that is traditionally named after its apparent form or identified with a mythological figure
14. an optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer, containing an arrangement of lenses, or of curved mirrors and lenses, by which rays of light are collected and focused and the resulting image magnified
15. a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion
16. lacking a crew
19. recovery rocket recovery system in which the engine's ejection charge causes it to convert into a glider which creates lift as it flies through the air
20. the stabilizing and guiding unit of a model rocket, an aerodynamic surface projecting from the rocket body for the purpose of giving the rocket directional stability

1. the federal agency that built and operated the space shuttles from 1981 through 2012
4. a unit of measurement equal to 149.6 million kilometers, the mean distance from the center of the earth to the center of the sun
5. movement, or a tendency to move, toward a center of attractive force, as in the falling of bodies to the earth
6. any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star
8. each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which was the first satellite to be placed in orbit
9. a space entirely devoid of matter
12. a small celestial body composed of rock and metal
13. the path of a celestial body in its revolution about another
17. planet a celestial body resembling a small planet but lacking certain technical criteria that are required for it to be classed as such
18. a celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star