Space Technology

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Across
  1. 2. Robots that fly to far parts of space to gather photos and information and sent it back to earth. Some land on other planets.(2 words)
  2. 3. the first artificial Earth satellite
  3. 4. Allow humans to be up into space for experiments (2 words)
  4. 5. A big telescope in space orbiting the Earth. It avoids the distortion of looking through an atmosphere. It can see things very far away.(2 words)
  5. 8. receive radio frequencies form space – give information.(2 words)
  6. 9. a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft
  7. 12. The largest space telescope that was launched in 1990 and remains in operation is called the ______ space telescope.
  8. 13. a vehicle with a very powerful jet engine designed to carry people or equipment beyond Earth and out into space.
Down
  1. 1. Orbiting laboratories for people to live and work in zero gravity (2 words)
  2. 3. Machines that orbit the earth to gather and send information.
  3. 6. a person who studies space
  4. 7. first probe to go into space (2 words)
  5. 10. the first United States space station
  6. 11. Lenses to make things look bigger. Different filters can show different things. The higher and further from the city the better one can see. They are often up on mountains.