Text 2: A Timeline for Humanity’s Colonization of Space

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Across
  1. 1. Solar ______ is a method of propulsion using radiation pressure exerted by sunlight on large surfaces
  2. 3. NASA is planning to put ___________ into orbit for a year, to find out, if humans are indeed ready to live on a different planet
  3. 7. _____ Galactic is a space company established by Richard Branson
  4. 9. This is a goal for space exploration organaisations when it comes to low-cost rockets
  5. 11. The line between the earths atmosphere and outer space
  6. 12. A group of people sent out to start a new territory
  7. 14. A curved path of a spacecraft or a celestial object around a star, planet or a moon
  8. 15. The acronym of the space station that orbits the earth
  9. 16. NASA will start to research human ______ before progressing to Mars colonization
  10. 17. The usual measurement of payload of a rocket
Down
  1. 1. A company which specializes in space technologies
  2. 2. Used to move something forwards, i.e. a rocket
  3. 3. The planets have to ____ for travel between Earth and Mars to be possible
  4. 4. The commercial side of holidays and places to visit
  5. 5. The acronym of a famous telescope launched 25th of December, 2021
  6. 6. One of the first reusable rockets with the prefix Heavy
  7. 8. In March 2016, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly completed a similar year-long mission aboard the ISS to test the effects of zero _____ on the human body and what that will mean for future space travel to Mars.
  8. 10. Humans plan to _________ a colony on Mars
  9. 13. The government organisation, which works with space in the US