Complete the Brief: Space Race

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  1. 2. The spacecraft that carried Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space.
  2. 8. The first human to walk on the Moon.
  3. 10. The first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.
  4. 11. The U.S. government agency responsible for space exploration.
  5. 12. A political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
  6. 13. The first U.S. manned spaceflight program.
  7. 14. U.S. president who famously declared America’s goal to land a man on the Moon by the end of the 1960s.
  8. 15. NASA’s program that successfully landed humans on the Moon in 1969.
Down
  1. 1. A system of social organization in which all property is owned by the community.
  2. 3. The mathematician whose calculations made it possible to get John Glen safely into orbit and safely re-enter earth's atmosphere.
  3. 4. The first human in space, a Soviet cosmonaut.
  4. 5. Soviet leader during the early years of the space race.
  5. 6. The first dog in space, launched aboard Sputnik 2 by the Soviet Union.
  6. 7. A symbol of the Cold War, dividing East and West Berlin.
  7. 9. The geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II.