Space Race Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. First person to walk the Moon
  2. 5. The Cold War rival of the United States
  3. 6. Soviet spacecraft that carried Yuri Gagarin
  4. 8. First American astronaut to orbit Earth
  5. 9. The “_____ Missile Crisis” in 1962 added tension during the Space Race
  6. 11. Competition between U.S. and USSR for dominance in space
  7. 12. The Sea where Apollo 11 landed on the Moon (Sea of ______)
Down
  1. 1. Type of orbit Sputnik entered
  2. 3. The first artificial satellite launched by the USSR
  3. 4. The U.S. mission that landed the first humans on the Moon
  4. 5. A reusable U.S. space vehicle developed post-Space Race
  5. 7. U.S. president who declared the Moon landing goal
  6. 8. Soviet cosmonaut, first human in space
  7. 10. The U.S. space agency
  8. 11. A rocket used to launch the Apollo missions