Space Race Timeline

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Across
  1. 2. first American in orbit
  2. 3. why April 12, 1961 was so significant, first ___ in space
  3. 4. made its first orbital and flights in 1981
  4. 8. who put up the first artificial satellite Sputnik
  5. 9. Soviet Union missions to Venus
  6. 11. first space station
  7. 12. first Jupiter flyby
  8. 15. name of Soviet Union space station of the 1980s
Down
  1. 1. missions that were first Mars and Mercury flybys
  2. 2. first spacecraft docking involved this US mission
  3. 5. number of years between first man in space and first woman in space
  4. 6. first dog in orbit
  5. 7. name of Soviet space crafts that landed on or impacted the moon
  6. 10. first U.S. satellite
  7. 13. number of years between first man in space and first man on the Moon
  8. 14. first chimp in space