| VOSTOK | ___ 1, the spacecraft that carried Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into space in 1961 (6) |
| INDIAN | ___ 1; the world's richest cricket competition (6,7) |
| ENOS | Chimp who went into space in 1961 |
| PREMIER | ___ 1; the world's richest cricket competition (6,7) |
| MACH | ___ 1 (the speed of sound) |
| EUCLID | As dirt is removed from the spacecraft in Doctor Who (6) |
| LEONOV | Alexei, Soviet cosmonaut who was the first person to conduct a spacewalk in 1965 (6) |
| HUBBLE | - Telescope, device sent into space in 1990 (6) |
| STRUCK | "The clock ___ one, the mouse . . ." |
| GAGARIN | What was the surname of Yuri, the Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 became the first man in space? (7) |
| CASSINIHUYGENS | U.S.-European space mission to Saturn launched in 1997. After multiple flybys of the planet and its moons, a probe detached from the spacecraft and landed on Titan in 2005. Controllers sent the remain |
| YURI | Soviet cosmonaut, _ Gagarin, made the first manned space flight in 1961 (4) |
| ALANSHEPARD | US astronaut who became the first to travel in space in 1961 (4,7) |
| PEGASUS | It is described at the winged horse that sprang from the blood of Medusa when killed by Perseus. In Henry IV, Part 1 (act 4, scene 1), the Dauphin says of this horse: "To turn and wind a fiery ___ / A |
| NOSTROMO | A Joseph Conrad novel, also the name of the spacecraft in the film Alien (8) |
| SHENZHOU | Chinese space programme ('divine craft') whose fifth flight carried the first Chinese astronaut, Yang Liwei, into space in 2003 (8) |
| YURIGAGARIN | Soviet cosmonaut who made the first manned space flight in 1961 (4,7) |
| HEAVYMETALTHUNDER | Uranium boom exploding into space in the Steppenwolf tune?: 3 wds. |
| SCHIRRA | Astronaut Wally, who went into space in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs |
| SHATNER | William, ex-Star Trek actor who became the oldest person to go into space in 2021 (7) |
