| SPACECAPSULE | Part of a craft designed to be separated and survive re-entry into the Earth's orbit (5,7) |
| SNAILPACED | Slow to be separated and held under arrest (5-5) |
| DETACHABLE | Designed to be separated from an object (10) |
| BEAD | Part of a craft necklace |
| ICEBOAT | A craft designed to beat the freeze (7) |
| APOLLO | Any of a series of NASA craft designed to put man on the moon (6) |
| PARSEC | Distance at which the mean radius of the earth's orbit subtends an angle of one second of arc (6) |
| LIFEBOAT | A craft designed for rescues at sea; or, a measure taken in an attempt to save a business or investor etc in figurative troubled waters (8) |
| LUNA | In 1959, the USSR's ____ 1 was the first spacecraft to escape from the Earth's orbit |
| SOLARYEAR | Duration of the Earth's orbit |
| SPACESHUTTLE | Any of a series of reusable vehicles that can be launched into earth orbit before re-entry and an unpowered landing on a runway (5,7) |
| LUNARECLIPSE | A phenomenon occurring when the Moon passes into the Earth's shadow (5,7) |
| SIAMESETWINS | Suspect witness aims to get sweetheart arrested - they need to be separated right away! (7,5) |
| TRAITORSGATE | Characteristic step heard after troops' second entry into the Tower (8,4) |
| MAKEENDSMEET | Force sides to unite and survive financially |
| POOP | To the stern and lofty, it's a bit of a craft (4) |
| WELL | A hole or shaft excavated into the earth so as to tap a supply of water, oil or gas (4) |
| SKYLAB | The first U.S. space station, launched into Earth orbit on May 14, 1973. In July 1979 it entered the atmosphere, broke up, and scattered debris over the southeastern Indian Ocean and western Australia |
| HARLEM | A two-sided entry into the border of the Cotton Club scene (6) |
| YEARS | Periods of time akin to Earth's orbits/revolutions round the Sun and consisting of full cycles of seasons (5) |
