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Across 1. First man in space, inspired Péter Eötvös’ “Cosmos” 3. First instrument in space, on Gemini 6 (accompanied by jingle bells) 6. “The Planets” composer 7. Ascendant lark composer of “The Sons of Light,” about heavenly bodies, the zodiac, and their naming 9. Strauss tone poem in “2001,” Apollo 15 wake-up music, “Also sprach ___________” 13. Ragtime teacher of “Silver Rocket” composer Arthur Marshall 14. “Spanish Dances” composer of triple chorus with piano and organ, “Song of the Stars” 15. Unmanned space probes (1 & 2) bearing representative phonograph records 18. Best-known work of Manuel Ponce, Spanish for “Little Star” 22. Japanese impressionist, composer of “Orion and Pleiades,” “Gemini,” and “Cassiopeia” 23. Avant-garde composer of unfinished “L’Astronome,” “Espace,” and “Étude per espace” 25. Avant-garde master whose works were cribbed for “2001” 27. Title of Courtney Bryan work, the alignment of three heavenly bodies 29. Utah national park that inspired Messiaen’s “From the Canyon to the Stars” (2 words) 31. “Stars and Stripes” composer of “Looking Upward” 32. Obsessed by astronomy and Hollywood, idiosyncratic French composer of “Seven Stars Symphony” 34. First woman to be performed at the Met in 113 years, composer of “Orion” 36. Avant-garde composer of “Kosmogonia,” setting quotes by Copernicus, John Glenn, and others 37. Term for distanced music-making with performers separated, as specified in score 38. “Chance music” composer of “Atlas Eclipticalis,” after Antonín Bečvář star atlas 42. Composer of theme music for original PBS “Cosmos” 44. “Merry Widow” composer of comic operetta “The Stargazer” 46. Planet discovered by 18th century astronomer-composer William Herschel 47. “Cosmos” creator, inspiration for Poul Rudors’ “Serenade on the Shores of the Cosmic Ocean” 48. Europa, Leda, Io, Ganymede, and Callisto in Judith Lang Zaimont “Jupiter” piano suite 49. Recordings of plasma waves around these are heard in Terry Riley’s “Sun Rings”

Down 2. Orbiting celestial bodies, often in a belt, of Gloria Coates string quartet “Among the _________” 4. Alliterative Alan Hovhaness composition on Apollo 9 astronaut mix-tape (2 words) 5. Award-winning Bill Conti score for film after Tom Wolfe Mercury astronauts book (3 words) 8. System of astrological signs that forms basis of George Crumb’s “Makrokosmos” 10. Gebrauchsmusik composer of Johannes Kepler opera “The Harmony of the World” 11. English “Eclogue” composer who set Thomas Hardy poem about Donati’s Comet 12. Polish composer of bestselling Symphony No. 3 and earlier “Copernican” symphony 16. Term for propulsive crescendo, characteristic of 18th century Mannheim orchestra 17. Roman philosopher quoted alongside Apollo 8 transmissions in Kile Smith’s “Consolation of Apollo” 19. Collapsed star phenomenon in Michael Gandolfi’s “The Garden of Cosmic Speculation” (2 words) 20. New England composer of unfinished “Universe Symphony” 21. Space telescope that inspired Eric Whitacre’s “Deep Field” 24. Avant-garde composer who claimed to be not from outside Cologne, but from planet orbiting Sirius 26. Heaven’s Gate cult comet, inspiration for string orchestra work by Graham Waterhouse 28. Minimalist composer of Galileo opera 30. Extraterrestrial-sounding electronic instrument played without physical contact 33. Astronomer from musical family whose views on heliocentrism triggered heresy trial 35. Belle of Amherst, poet set in Judith Weir’s “Moon and Star” 37. Harmonious movement of celestial bodies, “music of the _______” 39. Composer of “New World Symphony,” brought to the Moon by Neil Armstrong 40. Prosthetic-nosed astronomer of Borresen ballet “At Uranienborg” 41. Space agency dedicatee of Joaquin Rodrigo’s “In Search of the Beyond” 43. Astronomer inspiration (nothing to do with denim) for Robert Simpson String Quartet No. 7 45. Hoped-for destination of space travelers in Alan Hovhaness Symphony No. 53 “Star Dawn”