Complete Clue List
Across
1. Country beginning its 7A spaceflight program in 1967
4. Danger, as with most spaceflight
7. Earthling, people interested in spaceflight
10. Relocation (abbr.)
11. Country involved in the 20th-century's Space Race (init.)
12. Look forward to, as with an astronaut and a space launch
13. Shuttle path
14. Saturn features
15. Center of activity
16. Liftoff approx.
17. Beam
19. Watchers
22. About, in dates
24. Business organisation undertaking commercial spaceflight (7-10)
31. Those on a manned spaceflight who are not passengers
32. Latin stars, also the name of an American launch-vehicle company based in Alameda, CA
33. The Kármán line, (100 km, 62 mi) altitude denoting the ____ of space
36. Part-timers, unlike many astronauts (4-13)
41. Tummy trouble
43. High-IQ group
46. Distorts
49. Night before (a space launch)
50. Global positioning fig.
51. Kidney-related
52. Universal principle, or space infrastructure developer headquartered in Houston, TX
53. Home planet
54. Be indisposed (could be an issue during spaceflight)
55. Breathable part of life support on a space vehicle
56. Clean vigorously, important with 55A and drinkable water during spaceflights
57. Series of Soviet spacecraft used since the 1960s
58. Escape velocity: minimum ____ for an object to overcome the Earth's gravity
Down
1. State of extreme confusion and disorder
2. Middle-Eastern nationality of the Al-Abid three-stage satellite launch system
3. Getting a drink (2,3,3)
4. Deep-space vehicle
5. Moscow money
6. Troubadours' instruments or soft glues that harden on setting
7. Printed version (4,4)
8. Inconsequential
9. Japan's National Space Development Agency (abbr.)
18. Russian space station
20. "____-haw!" ("Yippee!," country-style)
21. Lab animal
23. Trig. calculation
24. Diplomatic agreements, including countries working together in space
25. Construction girder (1-4)
26. Muse of lyric poetry
27. Gunpowder ingredient, to Guy Fawkes
28. Physicals, essential for astronauts (abbr.)
29. In 1984, Rakesh Sharma was the first citizen from this country to travel in space
30. Makes level
34. Reusable space station developed by the European Space Agency
35. Space Shuttle launches involved two reusable solid rocket ____
37. Outer (prefix)
38. Adversary
39. Call for help, also acronym for Japan's Space Operations Squadron
40. Area of space around our planet: ____ Earth Orbit
41. The NASA Astronaut ____ selects, trains, and provides astronauts for space missions
42. The Apollo 11 ____ mission saw the first astronauts land on the Moon
43. Nourishment with specific requirements during space missions
44. Unpleasantly loud, such as a space launch
45. Russian "Diamond", Soviet 1960s secret military space station program
47. Weird
48. Timetable (abbr.)