The Space Race

Astronauts & Cosmonauts

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Member of Apollo 11 and First Man on the Moon

Neil Armstrong

200

2nd Member of Apollo 11 and 2nd Man to Walk on the Moon

Buzz Aldrin

300

1st Man to Visit Space

Yuri Gagarin

400

Pilot of the Apollo 11 Spacecraft

Michael Collins

500

First Man to Perform a Spacewalk

Alexei Leonov

Notable Missions

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First Successful Mission to Land Men on the Moon

Apollo 11

200

First Artificial Satellite to be Launched into Space, Started the Space Race

Sputnik 1

300

Mission that Sent the First Man to Space

Vostok 1

400

First Satellite Launched into Space by the U.S.

Explorer 1

500

The First Crewed Mission to Orbit the Moon

Apollo 8

Notable Locations

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NASA's Headquarters in Houston, Texas

Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center

200

Launch Site of Apollo 11 in Orlando, Florida

Kennedy Space Center

300

Primary Landing Site for the Space Shuttle Columbia in Los Angeles, California (1951)

Edwards Air Force Base

400

Launch Site for Sputnik 1 and Vostok 1 in Kazakhstan

Baikonur Cosmodrome

500

Home of the Soviet Union's Space Program Headquarters

Moscow, Russia

Notable Equipment

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The Rocket that Sent the Apollo Missions to Space and the Moon

Saturn V

200

First Satellite Sent to Space

Sputnik

300

The Rocket that Sent the First Man to Space in the USSR

Vostok 1

400

The Space Craft that Helped Astronauts Land on the Moon and Take Off back into Orbit

Lunar Module

500

Essential Item for a Space Capsules Return to Earth

Parachutes

Notable Planets Visited

100

Home to all of the Equipment Used during the Space Race

Earth

200

Planet visited during the Apollo Mission

The Moon

300

First Planet visited by the USSR

Venus

400

The Planet on Which the Curiosity Rover is Currently Roaming

Mars

500

The Planet that Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 flew by

Saturn