Space Race Pre-Unit Web Quest

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Across
  1. 3. Programmer who led NASA’s early computing teams
  2. 4. Mathematician who calculated flight paths for NASA missions
  3. 6. Event where astronauts walked on the Moon
  4. 7. Competition between the U.S. and USSR to achieve space firsts
  5. 9. First U.S. human spaceflight program
  6. 11. United States agency in charge of space exploration
  7. 15. Path a spacecraft follows around Earth
  8. 19. Animals used by the Soviet Union in early missions
  9. 20. First human to travel into space
  10. 22. Area where rockets take off
  11. 23. First person to walk on the Moon
  12. 26. Tools and inventions developed during the Space Race
  13. 29. Animals used by the U.S. to test space travel
  14. 30. President who challenged the U.S. to land on the Moon
  15. 31. Mission that first landed humans on the Moon
  16. 32. Country that led the American side of the Space Race
  17. 35. Section of a spacecraft with a specific job
  18. 36. Country that competed against the United States in space exploration
  19. 37. When two spacecraft connect in space
Down
  1. 1. Water landing used by Apollo missions
  2. 2. Vehicle used to send spacecraft into space
  3. 5. When an astronaut exits a spacecraft
  4. 8. Items or people carried by a rocket
  5. 9. Engineer who became NASA’s first Black female engineer
  6. 10. Conflict between the U.S. and Soviet Union that caused the Space Race
  7. 12. Object launched into orbit to collect information
  8. 13. Small spacecraft that carries astronauts
  9. 14. Spacecraft that carried the first human into space
  10. 16. Return of a spacecraft to Earth
  11. 17. Protective layer that prevents burning during re-entry
  12. 18. Space program that landed astronauts on the Moon
  13. 21. Name for American space travelers
  14. 24. Celestial body that became the main goal of the Space Race
  15. 25. Program that practiced spacewalking and docking
  16. 27. Second person to walk on the Moon
  17. 28. Book and film about women who worked at NASA
  18. 33. First artificial satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957
  19. 34. Name for Soviet space travelers