General Info
Name the two main countries in the Space Race.
What are USA and USSR?
Name 3 types of animals that have been sent into space.
What are Fruit flies, Rhesus monkeys, chimps, mice, dogs, squirrels, cats?
Name the first humans on the moon.
Who were Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin?
What did the Soviets call their spacemen?
What is a Cosmonaut?
What was the first animal to die in space?
What was Laika the dog? (1957) (overheated)
Who won the Great Space Race?
What is the United Stated of America?
True or False, Animals were carried to space before the Space Race began?
What is True?
On what date did the first humans land on the moon?
What is July 20, 1969?
Name the first spacecraft to fly around the moon and return to earth.
What is the Zond 5?
(September 14-21, 1968)
What exploded in space July 3, 1969?
What is the N1 Moon Rocket?
The year the Space Race began.
What is 1957?
Name the animal the USA sent up in a missile in May 1959.
What is a rhesus monkey, Able?
Name the first USA satellite and when it went into space.
What is the Explorer 1, February, 1 1958?
Who was Yury Gagarin?
Who was the first human in orbit?
(Vostok 1)
How did Virgil Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee die (while not in space)?
What was a fire during a launch pad test? (January 27, 1967)
The year the Space Race ended.
What is 1969?
What was the name of the first animal on a spacecraft?
Who is Dog Laika?
Who was John Glenn?
Who was the first American in orbit, on the Mercury-Atlas 6?
Who was the first woman in space?
Who was Valentina Tereshkova, on Vostok 6?
Name the first space craft fatality (in space).
Who was Vladimir Komarov, on Soyuz 1?
(April 23, 1967)
In 1975 what great space-related event occurred?
What was a joint space mission between the USA and the USSR?
Name the spacecraft that carried the first animal into space.
What is Sputnik 2?
Name the first American to take a space walk.
Who is Ed White, on Gemini 4?
(June 3, 1965)
What was the Luna 9 famous for?
Death of the USSR premier spacecraft designer.
Who was Sergey Korolyov, on Jan 14, 1966?