Space Race

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  1. 4. the group of seven astronauts selected to fly spacecraft for Project Mercury. They are also referred to as the Original Seven and Astronaut Group 1.
  2. 6. American astronaut chosen to take part in the Gemini and Apollo missions. He was the first person to do a space walk.
  3. 7. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research
  4. 9. a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space
  5. 10. the third American in space and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962
  6. 13. the first human spaceflight program of the United States running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely ideally before the Soviet Union
  7. 16. the largest modular space station in low Earth orbit. The project involves five space agencies: the United States' NASA Russia's Roscosmos Japan's JAXA Europe's ESA and Canada's CSC
  8. 19. American astronaut he and mission commander Neil Armstrong were the first two people to land on the Moon.
  9. 20. first satellite launched by the United States in 1958 and was part of the U.S. participation in the International Geophysical Year
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  1. 1. began a dramatic expansion of the U.S. space program and committed the nation to the ambitious goal of landing a man on the Moon by the end of the decade
  2. 2. American astronaut who became the second person and the first American to travel into space
  3. 3. NASA's second human spaceflight program. Conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo
  4. 5. the site of operations for the U.S. space program under the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
  5. 8. the first crewed mission of the Apollo program the American undertaking to land the first man on the Moon
  6. 11. Space shuttle mission that unfortunately exploded shortly into its flight killing the 7 astronauts onboard
  7. 12. first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957
  8. 14. an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who became the first person to walk on the Moon in 1969
  9. 15. an object intentionally placed into orbit in outer space
  10. 17. the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon
  11. 18. seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and the third meant to land on the Moon