Background
What two countries were a part of the Space Race?
What is the USSR and USA
What was the first object launched into the atmosphere ever, produced by the USSR?
What was Sputnik I
The law signed to make the foundational framework of Space?
What is The Outer Space Treaty
The 1969 mission that successfully landed the first humans on the Moon?
What was Apollo 11
In a 1961 address to Congress, this U.S. President famously committed America to landing a man on the Moon before the decade was out?
Who is John F. Kennedy
What war was going on?
What was The Cold War
What was the name of the dog launched into orbit famously the first creature to orbit the Earth on Sputnik II?
Who was Laika the Dog
What two countries started the Outer Space Treaty?
What is the U.S and USSR
The colossal, 363-foot-tall rocket that powered the Apollo missions?
What was Saturn V
This civilian agency was established by the U.S. in 1958 to lead its non-military space efforts?
What is NASA
Who won the Space Race?
What is The U.S
What mission famously sent an astronaut to space to orbit around the earth for the first time?
What was Vostok 1
What does the Outerspace Treaty state in Article I?
What is Contains an undertaking not to place in orbit around the Earth
The specific lunar landing site of the Lunar Module Eagle?
What is the Sea of Tranquility
The Space Race essentially began as a branch of this military race to build long-range nuclear weapons?
What is the missile race
What event led to the start of the Space race?
What was the launching of Sputnik
What was the name of the mission that famously sent three astronauts to the moon?
What was Apollo 11
What does Article II state?
What is keeping the Moon a peaceful place
The "forgotten" third astronaut who stayed in lunar orbit during the landing?
Who was Michael Collins
This Soviet Premier boastfully used early space victories as propaganda to argue that communism was superior to capitalism?
Who is Nikita Khrushchev
Who were the three presidents during the Space Race?
Who was Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson
Who was the first astronaut to step on the moon saying a very famous phrase?
Who was Buzz Aldrin
After the Treaty was enforced what happened?
What is the US and USSR work on space projects together as one
The name of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module that touched down on the Moon?
What was The Eagle
This July 1975 joint mission featured an orbital handshake between American and Soviet crews, symbolically ending the Space Race?
What is the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project