space race
Across
- 2. The first human to travel into outer space and orbit the Earth.
- 5. The first artificial satellite launched into orbit by the USSR in 1957.
- 7. The second man to walk on the moon, nicknamed "Buzz".
- 8. The NASA program that successfully landed humans on the moon.
- 10. The U.S. President who challenged the nation to land a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s.
Down
- 1. A person trained by a Russian or Soviet space program to travel in space.
- 3. The first human to walk on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission.
- 4. The Soviet space dog who became one of the first animals in space and the first to orbit Earth.
- 6. The U.S. government agency responsible for the civilian space program.
- 9. The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a planet or star.