Space Race

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  1. 5. This NASA project involved the human exploration of the moon.
  2. 7. The Apollo 13 mission was aborted due to an explosion in this area of the rocket.
  3. 9. On April 24, 1967, cosmonaut Vladimir M. Komarov was killed in a reentry crash when this item on his Soyuz 1 spacecraft failed to deploy.
  4. 12. This was the name of a program developed by the U.S. Air Force to launch the first man into the outer space before the soviets did, but ultimately failed when the USSR launched Yuri Gagarin, the first man into space.t
  5. 16. On November 3rd, 1957, Sputnik 2 carried the first animal, a dog, into orbit aboard the Soviet Sputnik 2 spacecraft. This is the name of the dog.
  6. 18. In 1981, Columbia became the first ever of this type of spacecraft to be launched.
  7. 19. In January 1967, three American astronauts were killed in their spacecraft by this during a launch simulation.
  8. 20. On July 21, 2011, after the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Atlantis’s final mission, NASA _______ the space shuttle program.
  9. 21. This was the first type of insect launched into space during 1947 at a height of 106 miles above the Earth’s surface.
  10. 23. On May 5, 1961, this man became the first American to fly into space.
  11. 26. This is the name of the lunar module that landed on the moon.
  12. 29. This is the number of days it took for the Saturn V rocket during the Apollo 11 mission to reach the moon.
  13. 31. The Space Race ended in 1975 with this joint program between the U.S. and the USSR.
  14. 33. In 1958, this president signed a public order creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a federal agency dedicated to space exploration.
  15. 35. In Project Mercury, the U.S. tested their first space capsules with this type of animal:
  16. 36. This was the first space station, and was launched by the Soviets in April 19, 1971.
  17. 37. This president was largely involved with the Apollo Project, in which he was committed to land a man on the moon as a U.S. demonstration of its scientific and technological superiority over its cold war adversary.
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  1. 1. The USSR launched successfully this first satellite into space, and it was this success that primarily started the space race.
  2. 2. On February 20, 1962, John H. Glenn Jr. became the first U.S. astronaut to _____ the Earth
  3. 3. This satellite was the first successful U.S. satellite launched into space lead by Wernher von Braun.
  4. 4. After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in the Cold War. During this period, space exploration emerged as a major area of contest and became known as the space ______.
  5. 6. This was the only American astronaut to have flown in space on the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo projects.
  6. 7. This treaty, which was signed by the United States, USSR, and the United Kingdom on January 27, 1967, which prevented the use of weapons or other harmful means on the moon and in space.
  7. 8. In 1983, as a member of Challenger on the mission STS-8, this man became the first African American in space.
  8. 10. On January 2, 1986, this shuttle exploded 73 seconds after launch, killing all 7 crew members on board.
  9. 11. In 1959, the Soviet Union performed the first hard landing on this celestial body with the Luna 2 spacecraft.
  10. 12. This astronaut orbited around the moon on his own during the Apollo mission.
  11. 13. This astronaut who first stepped on the moon stated this famous quote: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
  12. 14. This was NASA's first high-profile program involving human spaceflight, an effort to learn if humans could survive the rigors of spaceflight.
  13. 15. American spacemen were called astronauts. This term is what the soviets called their spacemen.
  14. 17. In total, this number of astronauts walked on the Moon during 6 Apollo lunar landing missions.
  15. 18. This was the name of the first American woman sent into space and was the youngest American astronaut ever to travel to space.
  16. 22. In 1960, USSR’s Sputnik 5 was launched, carrying the dogs Strelka and Belka. They became the first living beings to ever do this on a trip into space.
  17. 24. In 1965, While tethered to his spacecraft, this cosmonaut became the first man to walk in space.
  18. 25. During the late 1940s, this Department pursued research and rocketry and upper atmospheric sciences as a means of ensuring American leadership in technology.
  19. 27. Most of Russia’s launches take place at Baikonur Cosmodrome, located in this former Soviet republic.
  20. 28. This person was the first Israeli astronaut, and was one of the seven crew members that died during the space shuttle Columbia disaster.
  21. 30. One of the highlights of the Gemini Project occurred during Gemini 4, on June 3, 1965, when Edward H. White, Jr., became the first U.S. astronaut to conduct this.
  22. 32. As of 2010, this number of countries had stated interests in space exploration.
  23. 34. On May 14, 1973, this was the name of the first U.S. space station launched.