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Space Race
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First American person to orbit the Earth?
John Glenn
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What is the Space Race?
competition between the Soviet Union and the United States, for supremacy in spaceflight capability
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When did the U.S. launch its first space station, Skylab
1973
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Who was the first American in space?
Alan Shepard
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Who were the first two people to walk on the moon?
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
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What started the Space Race?
What started the space race was the Russian launch of Sputnik into space
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When was the first US space shuttle launched and what was it called
Columbia & 1981
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What was the first spacecraft to orbit the moon and return to Earth?
The Soviet spacecraft Zond 5
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Who delivered the speech that motivated Americans on the space race?
John F. Kennedy
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What does NASA stand for and when was it created
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Name one technology that was a spinoff from the space program?
Improved Radial tires, firefighter gear, satellites, laptops, navigation technologies
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What satellite discovered the earths radiation belt?
Explorer 1
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Who created two national security-oriented space programs that operated simultaneously with NASA’s program?
President Dwight Eisenhower
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What event effectively ended the space race?
The landing of someone Apollo 11 on the moon
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What was the first artificial satellite launched into space?
Sputnik
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What was the first successful weather satellite and who was it launched by?
Tiros 1 by the US
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First Russian to orbit Earth?
Yuri Gagarin
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What killed three astronauts in January 1967?
when a space craft caught fire during a launch simulation
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When was the first animal in space?
1947
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Why did Americans react with alarm to the launching of Sputnik?
they saw it as and american failure
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