Common information
Who participated in the space race?
America
Soviet Union
Did the Soviet Union win the space race?
No the Soviet Union did not win the space race.
What was Americas First satellite?
Explorer 1
When did the space race start and end?
Space race started
August 2, 1955
Space race ended
July 20, 1975
What was the space race?
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War adversaries, the Soviet Union and the United States, to achieve superior spaceflight capability.
Name of the first satellite.
Sputnik
Who was the first man to orbit earth?
John Glenn
When did the Apollo 11 mission start?
1969 is when the mission started
Who won the space race?
America had won the space race.
What animal was put on the second satellite?
A dog
Who Flew Gemini 7 for 14 days? (two people)
Frank Borman and Jim Lovell
What was the Soviet Unions First failed attempt to get to the moon?
January, 1959
What were the first animals launched into space?
Dogs
Primates
Who was their leading scientist?
Sergei Korolev
Did Pioneer 3 complete its mission successfully?
No it did not.
When does Nasa launches two monkeys into orbit?
May 28, 1959
Who was the first and last person to set foot on the moon?
First - Neil Armstrong
Last - Eugene Cernan
How many failed attempts to get to the moon?
Four failed attempts
What did the Pioneer 3 discover?
2nd orbit belt
When did the Yuri Gagarin First enter orbit?
April 12 , 1961
What did winning the space race mean for America?
To be determined by Elias