The Great Space Race.

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Across
  1. 2. - Russian space station that operated for 15 years
  2. 3. - First artificial Earth satellite launched by the Soviet Union
  3. 5. - Russian spacecraft still in use today
  4. 6. - Soviet program that launched the first human into space
  5. 7. - US rocket used for military and scientific purposes
  6. 9. - US agency responsible for space exploration
  7. 11. - Series of US satellites designed to investigate space
  8. 13. - Soviet dog that became the first animal to orbit the Earth
  9. 14. - US program that aimed to launch the first artificial satellite but failed
  10. 16. - first American to journey into space
Down
  1. 1. - Rocket used by the US to launch Apollo missions
  2. 2. - First US program to put humans in space
  3. 4. - First privately sponsored space mission
  4. 5. - US space station that orbited Earth from 1973-1979
  5. 8. - Valentina Tereshkova, first woman to journey into space
  6. 10. - US program that aimed to develop techniques for advanced space travel
  7. 12. - first human to journey into space
  8. 13. - Soviet program that sent robotic spacecraft to the moon
  9. 15. - US program that landed humans on the moon