Space Exploration

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Across
  1. 3. To make ____ (McCoy 2)
  2. 5. To advance _______ and technology (McCoy 2)
  3. 8. The exploration of space was limited to observation until the advent of the liquid-propellant ______ in the twentieth century (Newton, et al. 1)
  4. 9. In 2005 the U.S. Congress asked ____ to recommend a plan to locate, characterize, and deflect potentially hazardous “city-killer” asteroids as small as 140 meters (460 feet) across (Tresch Fienberg 2)
  5. 11. Excitement about space exploration motivates students to study science, technology, engineering, and math (____) (Newton, et al. 3)
  6. 12. To develop an understanding of the ________ (McCoy 2)
  7. 13. Robots are useful in well-defined, __________, and predictable situations (McCoy 1)
Down
  1. 1. In the United States these were the _______, Gemini, and Apollo programs (Newton, et al. 2)
  2. 2. Today a Google search will instantly net you high-resolution color close-ups of just about any planet or moon you can name (Tresch Fienberg 1)
  3. 4. Rock Niel Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin spent only a few hours on the _____ surface, deployed only a few scientific experiments, and collected only modest samples of _____ ____ and soil. (Schlager and Lauer 2)
  4. 5. The same rockets and __________ were now developing to send astronauts and heavy payloads to the Moon and Mars could be used to fly them to near-Earth objects—much sooner—without any additional investment (Tresch Fienberg 2)
  5. 6. A good deal of space exploration in terms of utilization of space and resources launched into space focuses on _____ and events that take place on _____ (Newton, et al. 1)
  6. 7. Space may provide answers to threats to planet Earth, including ______________ (McCoy 2)
  7. 10. The _________ and comets that whiz through our immediate interplanetary neighborhood (Tresch Fienberg 1)
  8. 11. We should explore space for our ________(Tresch Fienberg 1)