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VOSTOK
VOSKHOD
SOYUZ
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POTPOURRI
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The first human in space.
Who is Yuri Gagarin
100
This was the professional role of Konstantin Feoktistov, who was one of three cosmonauts on the first multi-manned space flight.
What is spacecraft designer?
100
The Soviets claimed this was the purpose of the Soyuz missions.
What is to develop a space station to orbit the Earth?
100
This term refers to a regulating chamber located between two regions of unequal pressure.
What is an air lock?
100
These initial Soviet and US manned space programs both had objectives to put a man in orbit.
What are Vostok and Mercury?
200
Soviet space traveler.
What is a Cosmonaut?
200
The crew of Voskhod 1 wore these instead of bulky spacesuits.
What are overalls?
200
This system failed on the Soyuz 1 mission, resulting in the loss of the crew.
What is the parachute system?
200
This term refers to a small rocket used to slow or change the course of a spacecraft.
What is a retrorocket?
200
These two Soviet and US manned space programs each had an objective of putting a man on the moon.
What are Soyuz and Apollo?
300
The reentry of Vostok 1 was controlled using this type of command method.
What is radio control?
300
Boris Yegorov performed these type of experiments on Voskhod 1.
What are medical experiments?
300
Cosmonauts managed the final docking between Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 using this control method.
What is manual control?
300
This term refers to a the ignition of a small rocket used to slow or change the course of a spacecraft.
What is retrofire?
300
These two Soviet and US manned space programs each had an objective to perform an EVA in space.
What are Voskhod and Gemini?
400
As the sole cosmonaut in Vostok 6, she was the first woman in space.
Who is Valentina Tereshkova?
400
During Voskhod 2, he was the first person to perform an EVA or spacewalk.
Who is Alexi Leonov?
400
This was the first human space mission managed jointly by two nations.
What was the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project?
400
Russia is to the Soviet Union as Iowa is to_______
What is the United States?
400
Col Yuri Gagarin died in 1968 when he crashed while flying this Soviet fighter aircraft used extensively during the Korean War.
What is the MiG 15?
500
During his 108 minute space flight, he was the first human to orbit the earth.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
500
After the first space walk, the cosmonaut had trouble doing this.
What is getting back into the spacecraft?
500
On 14 January 1969 the Soviet Union made the first launch of a manned spacecraft, Soyuz 4 during this season.
What is winter?
500
Vostok is the Russian word for_______
What is east?
500
Lt Col Franklin and Col McKinley both flew this aircraft in combat.
What is the F-16 Fighting Falcon? (or Viper)