Fun Facts
What does NASA stand for?
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Who won the space race?
The United States
What country was the first on the moon?
The United States
Who was the first man on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
Who played golf on the moon?
Alan Shepard
What year was the Apollo-Soyuz docking mission carried out?
1975
What country put the first satellite in space
The USSR
Who was the first person to go to space
Yuri Gagarin
What were the first animals sent to space?
Fruitflies
What country was the third to enter the space race?
Czechoslovakia
Who performed the first space walk?
Alexei Leonov
Who landed the first rocket on earth?
Robert Goddard
What space shuttle was struck by lightning?
Apollo 12
What was the Apollo-Soyouz docking mission?
The first joint space mission carried out by the US and USSR
What was the first space station?
Salyut-1
Who designed the first Satellite?
Sergei Korolev
Who owns the moon?
Us
How much money did the US spend between the start of the space race and getting to the moon?
Thirty billion dollars
What was the first rocket called?
R-7 ICBM
Who was the voice of Houston on Apollo 11
Jack King