Giant Leaps word searches
Rockets, the Moon, and the long dream of leaving the ground.
Word searches
11 puzzlesAlcock & Brown Cross the Atlantic
The first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, 1919.
Apollo 11 Lifts Off for the Moon
July 16, 1969, the day Earth reached for the Moon.
Apollo 11 Splashes Down Safely
July 24, 1969, Columbia returns three astronauts home from the Moon.
Atlantis Meets Mir
June 29, 1995, the day a shuttle shook hands in orbit.
Louis Blériot Flies the English Channel
The daring 1909 flight that crossed 22 miles of open sea.
New Horizons Reaches Pluto
The day humanity's eyes first fell on distant Pluto.
Pioneer 10 Leaves the Solar System
The first man-made craft to venture beyond all known planets.
Skylab Splashes Down
America's first space station falls back to Earth, July 1979.
SpaceShipOne Touches the Edge of Space
The first private craft to reach space, June 21, 2004.
Valentina Tereshkova Reaches Orbit
June 16, 1963, the first woman launched into space.
Viking 1 Touches Down on Mars
July 20, 1976, the first spacecraft to land on Mars.
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About Giant Leaps
A rocket sits on the pad, and for a moment everything goes quiet, the held breath of a crowd, the trembling air, the countdown giving way to a roar that you feel in your chest before you hear it with your ears. Giant Leaps gathers word searches built from that world: the astronauts and engineers, the mission names and spacecraft, the launchpads and the language of a dream that refused to stay earthbound. From the earliest satellites arcing over a dark sky to the boot print pressed into lunar dust, these puzzles trace the long arc of human ambition upward. Pick one that calls to you and take your time with it.