Space Race- Cold War

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Across
  1. 1. The rocket technology originally designed to deliver nuclear weapons, which evolved into space launch vehicles
  2. 4. An activity where a crew member moves outside the spacecraft.
  3. 6. The curved path an object takes around a celestial body.
  4. 7. The Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human in space in 1961 (last name)
  5. 12. The world's first artificial satellite, launched by the USSR in 1957, which officially ignited the Space Race.
  6. 14. The Soviet spacecraft series that carried the first humans into orbit.
  7. 15. Both nations used their space achievements as soft power to prove the superiority of their respective political systems (capitalism vs. communism).
Down
  1. 2. The term used by the Soviet Union/Russia for its space travelers.
  2. 3. The first American to orbit the Earth (last name)
  3. 5. The term used by the United States for its space travelers.
  4. 8. The U.S. NASA program that successfully landed the first humans on the Moon.
  5. 9. The American astronaut who became the first human to walk on the Moon in 1969 (last name)
  6. 10. The Soviet space dog and the first animal to orbit the Earth.
  7. 11. The first American in space (last name)
  8. 13. The ideological and political tension between the USA and USSR that drove the race. ___ War.