Cosmonaut considered ”one of the last citizens of the USSR", he was on space station Mir and returned home as a Russian, not Soviet, citizen (initials)
18A
Looked at, sometimes sideways
19A
First Italian astronaut in space (initials)
20A
By any other name, it would smell as sweet
22A
Sacre color!
23A
Stellar spectacle
26A
78D39D, formally
27A
Anna Lee Fisher was the first one of these to be an astronaut
28A
Some cameras
29A
Birth of a notion
30A
Hot and Hatha
32A
55A has a molten one
33A
In other words
34A
Otherwise known as
36A
Common box
38A
Chart-toppers
40A
Precious to excess
41A
Miserly
45A
Macho man
46A
School org.
49A
83D rock that orbits the 82A
52A
First cosmonaut to perform a spacewalk (initials)
53A
Actinium
55A
Home 123D
57A
Meal starter
59A
Polloi preceder
60A
Bond doctor
61A
"Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious 69A" speaker
63A
Comes before Thin Air, The Wild, and The Woods
64A
Insect preserver
66A
39D cluster
69A
Definitely NOT a space station
70A
SNL alumnus Kevin
72A
Sacked or shot
73A
Whirled weapon
74A
Second astronaut to walk on the 69A (initials)
76A
Comms. giant
77A
With “pay”, the total weight of everything carried by a spacecraft
79A
Multinational conglomerate that recently broke into 3 go-forward companies including Healthcare, Vernova, and Aerospace
80A
German astronaut who, as a young student in Berlin, was involved in building "Tunnel 57" below the Wall, the escape route of 57 people from East to West Berlin (initials)
82A
55A’s 39D
83A
Nickname for the first American woman in space
84A
Astronaut who died in the 2003 space shuttle Columbia reentry disintegration (initials)
85A
Way to say hello
86A
It's over your head
88A
Scarf or snake
89A
Astronaut named to several Gemini missions; he died in a plane crash before ever actually making it to space (initials)
90A
Ballet bend
92A
What the 82A does with light and radiation
95A
Totoro’s Studio
99A
About two feet in Denmark
100A
Streak of light that occurs when an 49A burns up
102A
Impact sound
103A
Kid's parent
106A
Spiral seashell
108A
x3 for a Trio hit
109A
Si or oui
111A
Non-white folks, briefly
112A
55A, formally
113A
75D, briefly and literally
114A
85A opposite
115A
Whiten and weaken
118A
Abbreviation for a type of branching-time logic
119A
Barbie
121A
A massive, super-luminescent 88D107D
122A
Dines after dark
124A
August’s 151A
128A
A little size
129A
Heartbreak follower or California preceder
131A
Astronaut featured on Among the Stars (initials)
132A
Together, in Toulouse
133A
Blue-footed bird
136A
Brenda or Ringo
138A
Mars: prefix
140A
Unmanned submersible robot vehicle, abbr.
141A
39D system, e.g. 150A
142A
Al Capone's nemesis
144A
Swedish superstore
146A
Containing nothing
147A
Add an S and it’s a 83D station
148A
Story starter
149A
Father of theoretical computer science (initials)
150A
141A where 55A resides
151A
124A, for example
Verticales
1D
Mother of Andromeda, a 1A
2D
Seed-to-be
3D
Teeter-totter
4D
Norse god of war
5D
An 128A spider
6D
Parkinson's drug
7D
Way off
8D
Oldest astronaut to perform a spacewalk (initials)
9D
None at all
10D
Ill-mannered
11D
Singer Altounian
12D
Apollo 7 astronaut and command module pilot (initials)
13D
39D of 1985 TV movie, Murder in 83D (initials)
14D
Slivered nut
15D
Corporate shuffle, for short
16D
Almost no gas?
21D
Carnival city
24D
Media promotion, in short
25D
Nickname for the cosmonaut commander in charge of Mir when it was hit by a Progress spacecraft in 1997 (initials)
31D
NASA shuttle program numbering system
32D
Unit of electrical charge
35D
Public Affairs Officer Cheshier for NASA's Johnson Space Center
36D
Inside stuff
37D
Man-to-man or ___ -__-one
39D
The 82A is one
40D
Pucker-producing
41D
Manmade 55A orbiter
42D
Astronaut who commanded Apollo 10, the second crewed mission to orbit the 69A (initials)
43D
Sorrow
44D
Cosmonaut commander of Mir EO-21 expedition and ISS Expedition 4 (initials)
47D
Queer Eye fashion expert France
48D
Celestial streaker with a tail
50D
Toughen up
51D
What you might be on if you’ve been 72A
53D
Greek god of winds
54D
O'Brien of TV talk
56D
Pirouette pivot point
58D
Court org.
62D
Largest and heaviest ruminant cervidae
64D
Country music?
65D
Kanga's kid
67D
Easily spotted 1A
68D
Skillful
71D
Slangy refusal
74D
Common box
75D
113A is one
76D
Argon
78D
Formally 26A, with 39D
81D
”Cosmonauts” singer/sonwriter (initials)
83D
Where are the heavenly bodies are
85D
”You can’t think and ___ __ the same time.” (Yogi Berra)
87D
Sounds of surprise
88D
With 107D, a cosmic phenomenon caused by the collapse of a 39D
91D
Surround
93D
Previous Persian
94D
“You're always with yourself, __ ___ might as well enjoy the company.” (Diane Von Furstenberg)
96D
Activist group that gained notoriety in 1993 after switching voice boxes in talking G.I. Joes and Barbie dolls
97D
Time of your life?
98D
”Peace if possible, truth __ ___ ____.” (Martin Luther)
101D
Take it easy
104D
Foes of Frodo
105D
Actor Carney of The Honeymooners
107D
With 88D, so-called because material falls into it and cannot escape
110D
Back talk
112D
In accordance with fact or reality
116D
A measure of your ability to reason and solve problems
117D
First cosmonaut from Kazakhstan (initials)
119D
Blather
120D
Ad or women's follower
122D
Like Hercules
123D
You’re on one
124D
Hebrew holiday
125D
Tiny-capped mushroom
126D
Accepted doctrine
127D
In a lather?
129D
83D Odyssey supercomputer
130D
Easily recognizable 1A
131D
French film award
134D
Sandwich initials
135D
Cries of delight
137D
Reason to cram
139D
Astronaut on Apollo 17 who holds the record for most time spent in lunar orbit (initials)
143D
Vehicle function which detects if any of the wheels are losing their grip on the road, abbr.
145D
Only female cosmonaut currently in active service at Roscosmos and first to fly aboard SpaceX Crew-5 Crew Dragon (initials)
146D
First US astronaut to walk in space, served on Gemini 4, died in the Apollo 1 fire accident (initials)