Across
- 1. The people who work on a ship, aircraft etc
- 2. Someone who studies the stars and planets using scientific equipment including telescopes
- 3. A piece of rock that has fallen from space and landed on the ground
- 5. A vehicle that can travel in space
- 8. To send a missile, space vehicle, satellite, or other object into the air or into space
- 10. To bring a plane down to the ground
- 12. An object that is sent into space to travel round the Earth in order to receive and send information
- 14. Space and everything that exists in it, including the Earth and all the other planets
- 16. The broken pieces that are left when something large has been destroyed, especially by an explosion, fire, or accident
- 17. The path that is taken by an object moving around a larger object in space
Down
- 1. The whole universe
- 2. The air round the Earth or round another planet
- 4. A mass of rock that moves around in space
- 6. Someone who travels and works in space
- 7. A vehicle that travels into space and back to Earth and lands like a plane
- 9. Crash into each other
- 10. The process of moving a plane down onto the ground at the end of a journey
- 11. An important piece of work that a person or group of people has to do for a government or large organization, especially one that involves travel
- 13. The moment when a spacecraft enters the Earth's atmosphere again
- 15. The force that makes any two objects that have mass move towards each other