| A | B |
| linked | joined or connected |
| astronaut | a person who rides in a spacecraft |
| history | the story or record of what has happened in the past |
| gadget | a small tool |
| controls | buttons & other tiools for operating a spacecraft |
| liftoff | the raising into the air of a rocket or spacecraft |
| capsule | the front part of a rockiet |
| inventor | a person who invents |
| circled | gone around in a ring |
| countdown | the calling out of the seconds left before a spacecraft lifts off |
| astronauts | people who ride in a spacecraft |
| loomed | to appear as large & dangerous or full of trouble |
| rockets | long metal tubes open at one end used to launch spacecraft |
| craters | holes in the ground shaped like a bowl |
| spacecraft | something astronauts treavel in through space |