Space race

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Across
  1. 3. launched their first spacecraft
  2. 4. first American in space, completing a suborbital flight in just over 15 minutes.
  3. 6. Tragedy struck when a fire swept through the command module of what aircraft
  4. 8. the first artificial satellite to enter the atmosphere
  5. 9. first live organism launched into space
  6. 10. Armstrong first person to land on the moon
Down
  1. 1. President Dwight Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act which became known as....
  2. 2. becomes the first American to orbit the Earth.
  3. 5. quells fears of a Soviet victory in space by promising to have an American astronaut on the moon by the end of the decade
  4. 7. first person in space and the first person to orbit the Earth