Space race

2. The Soviet spacecraft that carried the first woman, Valentina Tereshkova, into space.
5. The American astronaut who became the first person to walk on the moon.
7. The Soviet spacecraft series that explored Venus and Mars during the 1960s.
8. The spacecraft that carried American astronauts to the moon.
9. The first artificial Earth satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.
11. The American astronaut who became the first human to orbit Earth multiple times.
12. The Soviet space station where cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin trained for his historic spaceflight.
15. The American spacecraft series that included Freedom 7 and Liberty Bell 7.

1. The Soviet space agency that competed with NASA during the Space Race.
3. The first American to orbit the Earth and later became a U.S. Senator.
4. The Soviet space dog that became one of the first animals in space in 1957.
6. The first human to travel into space, a Soviet cosmonaut.
7. The Soviet spacecraft that carried the first human, Yuri Gagarin, into space.
10. The American space agency that played a major role in the Space Race.
13. The American astronaut who commanded the Apollo 11 mission to the moon.
14. The space mission that marked the first successful docking of two spacecraft in orbit in 1965.