| YURI | Soviet cosmonaut, _ Gagarin, made the first manned space flight in 1961 (4) |
| YURIGAGARIN | Soviet cosmonaut who made the first manned space flight in 1961 (4,7) |
| GAGARIN | Yuri ___, Soviet cosmonaut who made the first manned space flight in 1961 (7) |
| JULY | Month of the first manned Moon landing |
| VOSTOK | ____ 1, the spacecraft that carried Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into space in 1961 (6) |
| EAGLE | Lunar module of the Apollo 11 space mission, which made the first manned moon landing on July 20, 1969 (5) |
| TERESHKOVA | Valentina, Soviet cosmonaut who was the first woman to travel in space (10) |
| SKYLAB | U.S.' first manned space station |
| MIR | (GKN) Soviet (later Russian) manned space station launched in 1986 and scuttled in the Pacific Ocean in 2001 (3) |
| CAPE | Florida space flight centre (4,9) |
| NASA | US agency responsible for space flight (4) |
| DGCA | Regulatory body investigating the runway excursion incident of the Air India flight in Mumbai.(abbvr.) (4) |
| LEGS | Land ___ (sense of balance, to be regained after a space flight) |
| LEONOV | Alexei, Soviet cosmonaut who was the first person to conduct a spacewalk in 1965 (6) |
| DOHA | A new Emirates route between ___ and Auckland is claimed to be the longest commercial flight in the world. (4) |
| ALEXEILEONOV | Soviet cosmonaut who was the first human to conduct a spacewalk (6,6) |
| APOLLO | NASA program that launched a series of manned space flights between 1968 and 1972 (6) |
| VII | The first manned Apollo mission |
| SCHIRRA | Commander of the first manned Apollo mission |
| PUPA | A little dog acquires a form enabling flight in later life (4) |
