Space Race

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  1. 3. US President who challenged America to land on the Moon by the end of the 1960s
  2. 7. The first American in space, flying a suborbital trajectory in 1961
  3. 8. The US space program that successfully landed humans on the Moon
  4. 10. The US government agency created in 1958 to lead civilian space exploration
  5. 11. The Soviet space dog who became one of the first animals in space
  6. 13. The massive American rocket that propelled astronauts to the Moon
  7. 15. The two-man US space program that mastered docking and spacewalks
Down
  1. 1. Soviet spacecraft series introduced in the 1960s and still used today
  2. 2. America's first human spaceflight program, featuring solo astronauts
  3. 4. The first successful satellite launched by the United States
  4. 5. The Soviet space program that carried the first human into orbit
  5. 6. The world's first artificial satellite, launched by the USSR in 1957
  6. 9. First human in space, orbiting Earth in 1961
  7. 12. The first person to walk on the Moon
  8. 14. Acronym for the long-range missiles that doubled as early space rockets