Space Race Basics
The Cold War competition between the US and USSR to explore space.
What is the Space Race?
The first human in space in 1961.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
The US president who promised to land a man on the Moon.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The Olympic Games boycotted by the US in 1980.
What are the Moscow Olympics?
The country that dominated the 1980 Moscow medal count.
What is the Soviet Union?
The first artificial satellite launched in 1957.
What is Sputnik 1?
The first American to orbit Earth.
Who is John Glenn?
The mission that landed humans on the Moon in 1969.
What is Apollo 11?
The Olympic Games boycotted by the USSR in 1984.
What are the Los Angeles Olympics?
The country that dominated the 1984 Los Angeles medal count.
What is the United States?
The two superpowers competing in the Space Race.
Who were the United States and the Soviet Union?
The first woman in space.
Who is Valentina Tereshkova?
The first person to walk on the Moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
The conflict that caused the 1980 boycott.
What is the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?
The alternative games held by Soviet allies in 1984.
What are the Friendship Games?
What year did the space race begin
What is the 1950s?
The first animal sent into space.
Who is Laika the dog?
Armstrong’s famous quote began with these words.
What is “That’s one small step man, one giant leap for mankind”?
The number of countries that joined the 1980 boycott (about).
What is 60?
The city that hosted the 1984 Olympics.
What is Los Angeles?
What does NASA stand for
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The first human spacewalk in 1965.
Who is Alexei Leonov?
The country that won the race to the Moon.
What is the United States?
The rivalry that turned the Olympics into a political battle.
What is the Cold War?
The city that hosted the 1980 Olympics.
What is Moscow?