Years and Dates
This year was the first moon landing.
What is
(July 20) 1969
These were the first two people to land on the moon.
Who was
Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin
This was the 'war' that competing in the space race belonged to.
What was
The Cold War
This was the spacecraft that carried Neil Armstrong.
What was
Apollo 11
This occurred in Apollo 1 which took the lives of three astronauts.
What was
A fire
What is
(May 25) 1961
This was the first man to ever go into space.
Who was
Yuri Gagarin
These were the two main nations involved in the space race.
What was
The United States and the Soviet Union
This particular spacecraft carried many species of animals and plants.
What was
Sputnik 5
This was a clever animal that learned to push buttons, pull levers, and recognized different colored lights.
Who was
Ham the monkey
Mariner 4 was launched in this year.
What is
(November 28) 1964
This was the first person to exit a spacecraft.
Who was
Alexei Leonov
This was the total amount of countries involved in the space race.
What was
18
This was the world's first communication satellite.
What was
SCORE (Signals Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment)
This was the most used name for spacecrafts.
Kosmos
Sputnik was launched in this year.
What is
(October 4) 1957
This was the first woman to fly with the Soviet Union.
Who was
Valentina Tereshkova
This nation launched the most spacecrafts during the space race.
What was
The Soviet Union
This spacecraft was the first man-made object to escape Earth's gravity.
What was
Luna 1
This is the total amount of humans ever gone into space.
What is
781
Ham went to space in this year.
What is
(January 31) 1961
This person flew the Mercury Spacecraft Freedom 7.
Who was
Alan Shepard
This country received the most information during the space race.
What was
The Soviet Union
This spacecraft flew by mars and took close up images.
What was
the Mariner 4
The Soviet Union sent these uncrewed spacecraft, from a program meaning "Moon," to take the first photos of the far side in 1959.
What are
the Luna Probes