WHO
The first person to walk on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
A competition during the Cold War to achieve superiority in space flight.
What is the Space Race?
The beginning of the Space Race.
The physical universe in which the Space Race took place
What is space?
It showed the world which country had superior science, technology, and economy, and the realization of the importance of space travel/ rocket research.
What is the importance of the Space Race?
Known for her work as a “human computer”, this woman contributed to the flight that changed the course of the space race.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
The two opposing countries in the Space Race.
What are the United States and the Soviet Union?
The end of the Space Race.
What is July 17, 1975?
The Space Race officially ended with a handshake between Aleksei Leonov and Thomas Stafford in this location.
What is Space?
The United States’ response to the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik I.
Why was NASA created?
The first person to orbit the moon.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
The mission that landed the first man on the moon.
What is Apollo 11?
The day Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.
What is July 21, 1969?
The location in which Sputnik I was launched from.
What is Gagarin's start?
The U.S. thought that if Russia could launch a satellite into space, then they could send a nuclear missile at the US.
Why was America worried about the launch of Sputnik I?
The first African American woman in space.
Who is Mae Jemison?
The first artificial Earth satellite launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union.
What is Sputnik I?
The year JFK promised a man would be on the moon by.
What is 1970?
The United States’ first satellite Explorer 1 was launched here.
What is Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 26?
The reason why the USSR gave up on the moon race.
What is lack of funds and resources?
The advisor of space affairs in the Soviet Union during the cold war.
Who is Sergei Korolev?
The name of the first dog in space.
What is Laika?
Sputnik 1 successfully sent signals to Earth while in orbit on this day.
What is October 4, 1957?
The Soviet Union sent a dummy into space prior to sending Gagarin. After he finished his flight, Ivan Ivanovich landed here.
What is Izhevsk?
Neil Armstrong’s lunar landing was the climax of space history and exploration.
Why it is argued that the Space Race ended in 1969 rather than in 1975.