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Across 1. the first successful weather satellite 5. launched, the first spacecraft to orbit the Moon and return 6. launched, impacting on the moon on September 13 7. National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics 9. the first spacecraft to orbit the moon 13. the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon 14. launched carrying Frank Borman and James A. Lovell, Jr., making 206 orbits around Earth and proving a trip to the Moon possible 15. launched with M. Scott Carpenter, making three orbits 16. the first successful planetary spacecraft, flies past Venus, and enters a solar orbit

Down 1. U.S. satellite, beams the first live transatlantic telecast 2. lifts off with John H. Glenn, Jr., the first American in orbit, and orbits the Earth three times 3. launched, becoming the first craft to impact Venus on March 1, 1966 4. first man-made satellite to orbit the moon 8. the first man-made object to orbit the Earth 10. launched, carrying Vladimir M. Komarov. On April 24 it crashed 11. carrying the dog Laika for 7 days in orbit 12. carries Soviet Cosmonaut Valentia Tereshkova, the first woman in space and orbits the Earth 48 times