| PROJECTMERCURY | First manned-spaceflight program in the United States |
| VOSTOK | Name, meaning “east”, for the USSR’s first manned spaceflight project |
| NPR | Media network for Susan Stamberg, the first woman to anchor a nightly news program in the U.S. |
| ROTC | Campus mil. program in The States |
| TOPGEAR | BBC car series listed by Guinness as the most widely watched factual TV program in the world |
| IOWA | ___ Writers' Workshop (vaunted graduate program in the Midwest) |
| MERCURY | First human US spaceflight program, 1958-63 (7) |
| GEMINI | Project ____ , NASA's second human spaceflight program that began in 1961 (6) |
| APOLLO | *NASA's human spaceflight program |
| NASA | Org. with an Artemis spaceflight program |
| SOYUZ | Soviet human spaceflight program |
| YURI | Soviet cosmonaut, _ Gagarin, made the first manned space flight in 1961 (4) |
| GAGARIN | Yuri --, in 1961 he made the first manned space flight (7) |
| EAGLE | Lunar module of the Apollo 11 space mission, which made the first manned moon landing on July 20, 1969 (5) |
| YURIGAGARIN | Pilot of the Soviet spacecraft Vostok 1, which made the first manned space flight on April 12 1961 (4,7) |
| JULY | Month of the first manned Moon landing |
| VII | The first manned Apollo mission |
| SCHIRRA | Commander of the first manned Apollo mission |
| SKYLAB | U.S.' first manned space station |
| COLUMBIA | NASA orbiter used for the first flight of the Space Shuttle program in 1981 (8) |
