The Space Race
What is the mid-20th century?
This is the year that America had its first astronaut to orbit the Earth.
What is 1962?
This is the planet that Soviet Venera missions studied.
What is Venus?
This is the name of the tension between the United States and the Soviet Union.
What is the the Cold War?
These entities are involved in space exploration.
These two countries' rivalry sparked the space race
What are the United States and Soviet Union?
Who is John Glenn?
This is the planet that NASA's Mariner and Viking programs explored.
What is Mars?
This is the collaborative project between multiple countries.
What is the International Space Station?
These are the three ambitious goals for space exploration.
What are returning humans to the Moon, establishing a presence on Mars, and even venturing beyond our solar system?
This artificial satellite was launched in 1957 and orbited the earth.
What is the Sputnik 1?
These are the names of the first people to set foot on the moon.
Who are Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin?
This is the year that The Voyager probes were launched.
What is 1977?
This is the year the International Space Station was first occupied.
What is 2000?
This is what drove the first space pioneers and continues to inspire new generations of explorers and scientists.
What is the spirit of discovery?
This person was the first human to journey into outer space and orbit the Earth in 1961
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
This is the name of the mission to land on the moon.
What is the Apollo 11 mission?
This is what the Voyager probes continue to send to this day.
What is data from the outer reaches of our solar system?
This is the purpose of the international space station.
What is Scientific Research?
What is to have encouraged, stimulated, or motivated someone or something to take action or increase effort?
What is the Vostok 1 space craft?
This is the date that humankind first landed on the moon.
What is July 20, 1969?
These two superpowers continued space exploration by sending probes into space.
Who are the United States and the Soviet Union?
This is what the International Space Station has been since 2000.
What is continuously occupied?
The definition of entities.
What is organizations, companies, or groups that have a distinct and independent existence.