Space Race

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  1. 5. first person to orbit Earth
  2. 8. first person to set foot on the moon and commander for the American Apollo 11 mission
  3. 9. Name of the dog launched into space by the USSR for space expedition on the Sputnik 2, becoming the first nation to send an organism into space
  4. 10. world’s first communications satellite
  5. 12. NASA’s lunar landing program
  6. 13. the space race took place during this war between the communist supporting USSR and capitalist supporting United States
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  1. 1. First cosmic rocket launched by the USSR which missed and escaped the orbit of the moon. It now orbits the Sun instead.
  2. 2. First artificial satellite
  3. 3. first American in space
  4. 4. Abbreviation for the National Air and Space Museum established in 1958
  5. 6. president signing NASA into law
  6. 7. U.S. effort to send a man into space
  7. 11. spacecraft that first landed humans on the moon