The Space Race

Firsts

100

First creature in space 

Laika the dog

200

First human in space

Yuri Gagarin

300

First NASA space program

Project Mercury

400

First flight of Neil Armstrong

Gemini 8

500

First to walk in space

Alexei Leonov

Soviet Union

100

Kicked off the Space Race 

Launch of Sputnik 1

200

Name of first space program 

Vostok

300

Name of there copy of the Saturn 5 Rocket 

N1

400

Genius behind the Soviet space program 

Sergei Korolev

500

Inspired the first spacecraft

Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) & The V2 rocket 

Saturn 5 Rocket

100

Number of engines 

5

200

Claim to fame

Largest thing lifted off the ground 

300

Number of stories tall

36 

400

Only thing louder than its liftoff 

Nuclear Bomb

500

Number of engines on the Soviet attempt 

29

Miscellaneous

100

Last purson to walk on the Moon

Eugene Cernan

200

Filmed the launch of Apollo 4

Walter Cronkite

300

Flammable gas used in most US rockets

Pure Oxygen 

400

Largest rocket explosion 

N1 Rocket 

500

Names of the 3 astronauts killed in the Apollo 1 disaster 

Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee