A beret
Cap
Far look at
(Telepathy)
Telescope
On its way to the Moon & back in 1969, Apollo 11 carried a piece of wood from a craft employed by these two men for another famous flight 66 years earlier
Wilbur and Orville wright
7 letter word for a renewable carbon-neutral energy source
Biofuel
A body of water smaller than a lake adds a vowel to become a unit of weight
Pond & pound
Maple syrup
Sap
Equal legs
(Isometric)
Isosceles
To prevent the spread of possible Moon germs, Apollo 11's capsule & crew were disinfected upon splashdown; the crew was then transported to Houston inside a converted Airstream trailer called the MQF, or Mobile this Facility
Quarantine
NASA uses "solid rocket" these to hep the main engines in the early going; they fall back to Earth & are reused
Boosters
A broad smile welcomes a vowel & turns into a seed of wheat
Grin & Grain
A noisy dance with wooden soles
Tap
Through words
(Diameter)
Dialogue
In 1975 an Apollo module was launched from Florida & this other craft from Kazakhstan for an orbital link-up that marked a rare period of detente in the space race
Soyuz
It gets up to about 3,000 degrees in this kind of furnace used to make pig iron
Blast Furnace
A daily meal eats up a vowel to send off a vessel
Lunch & Launch
A flat globe
Map
Spiral wings
(Helicobacter)
Helicopter
This giant rocket that carried the Apollo missions into space stood taller than the Statue of Liberty & weighed more than 6 million pounds
Saturn V
Gas used to power high temperature flames
Butane
One of the 4 divisions in a card deck antes up a vowel to be a hotel room upgrade
A quick summary of prior knowledge
recap
Coded writing
(cryptic)
Cryptograph
The Apollo missions brought back more than 800 pounds of moon rocks & showed that the dark lunar seas were made of this common volcanic rock that also makes up most of the oceanic crust here on Earth
Basalt
Comprised of multiple cells - not the organic kind
Battery
To fuse metal using heat fires up a vowel to emerge as a word meaning to hold a weapon
Weld & Wield