960s Historical Events: Space Race

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Across
  1. 4. Spacecraft sent to explore the Red Planet.
  2. 6. Safe return of astronauts to Earth.
  3. 7. Reusable spacecraft used by NASA in later years.
  4. 10. First human in space.
  5. 12. Launch site for many U.S. space missions.
  6. 13. Soviet spacecraft used for the first human spaceflight.
  7. 16. American physicist and pioneer of rocketry.
  8. 17. U.S. president who set the goal of landing a man on the moon.
  9. 19. Apollo 11's historic achievement.
Down
  1. 1. The rocket used for the Apollo missions.
  2. 2. An astronaut's journey outside a spacecraft.
  3. 3. NASA's program for manned spaceflight.
  4. 5. The competition between the U.S. and USSR.
  5. 8. Spacecraft used to land on the moon.
  6. 9. The first animal in space, a Soviet dog.
  7. 11. NASA's program to land astronauts on the moon.
  8. 12. Term for a Russian astronaut.
  9. 14. The first artificial satellite, launched by the USSR.
  10. 15. Activity performed by astronauts on the lunar surface.
  11. 18. NASA's intermediate step between Mercury and Apollo.