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The USA and the Soviet Union
Who participated in the space race?America
Soviet Union
No they didn't, the USA did.
Did the Soviet Union win the space race?
Explorer 1
What was America's first satellite?
August 2, 1955
When did the space race start?
Vostok
What was the name of the shuttle that carried the first man into space?
It was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War adversaries, the Soviet Union and the United States, to achieve superior spaceflight capability.What was the space race?
What was the space race?
Sputnik
What was the name of the first sattelite?
John Glenn
Who was the first American man to orbit earth?
1969 is when the mission started
When did the Apollo 11 mission start?
Friendship 7
What was the name of the shuttle that carried the first American into space?Friendship 7
America did, by putting the first man on the Moon.
Who won the space race?
A dog.
What animal was put on the second satellite?
Two people, Frank Borman and Jim Lovell
Who Flew Gemini 7 for 14 days?
January, 1959
What was the Soviet Unions First failed attempt to get to the moon?
Astronauts
What were American space pilots called?
Her name was Laika.
What dog was launched into space by the U.S.S.R and did not return?
Sergei Korolev
Who was the Soviet leading scientist/engineer?
President John F. Kennedy did
Which president started a multi-billion dollar program to send astronauts to the moon in 1962?
May 28, 1959
When does Nasa launches two monkeys into orbit?
1958
What year was NASA created?
They came from Germany and Ukraine
What countries did the US and the USSR get many of their rocket scientist?
They were called cosmonauts
How were Soviet Union space pilots called?
Yes, in the end the US won, which brought much more glory and popularity to the US.
Did the Space Race have a positive outcome in the end for the US?
Yuri Gagarin. He was sent into space in 1961
Who was the first man to be sent into space? What was the year?
12 people
How many people have walked on the Moon in total?