The Space Race

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Across
  1. 2. The powerful "V" (Five) rocket used to launch the moon missions.
  2. 3. Alan ______, the first American in space.
  3. 4. The backward counting to the moment of a rocket's launch.
  4. 7. John ______, the first American to orbit the Earth.
  5. 10. The name of the NASA program that landed men on the moon.
  6. 11. The first human to walk on the lunar surface: Neil ______.
  7. 12. Relating to the moon (e.g., the ______ Module).
  8. 13. The U.S. President who challenged the nation to reach the moon.
Down
  1. 1. The Texas city home to Mission Control.
  2. 2. The landing of a spacecraft by parachute into the ocean.
  3. 5. The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a planet.
  4. 6. The small, pressurized section of the rocket where astronauts lived.
  5. 7. The two-man spaceflight program that preceded Apollo.
  6. 8. The world's first artificial satellite, launched by the USSR in 1957.
  7. 9. Yuri ______, the first human to travel into outer space