The Space Race

3. A Russian or Soviet space explorer.
4. A spacecraft designed for repeated trips between Earth and space.
6. The most impactful space engineer and business person ever
8. Chief Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer.
10. Period of political and military tension between the US and USSR.
12. US government agency responsible for the nation's civilian space program.
14. Competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the US and USSR.
15. Competition between the US and USSR for space exploration supremacy.
16. Path of a body as it revolves around another body in space.
19. The first US human spaceflight program.
20. Event marking the arrival of a spacecraft on the moon's surface.
22. Primary launch site for US human space flights.
24. US program that developed space travel techniques to support Apollo.
25. An object that orbits planets or moons.
28. The first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the USSR.

1. First person to walk on the Moon.
2. Space telescope launched into low Earth orbit in 1990.
5. The US's first space station.
7. First human in space.
9. The USSR's spacecraft series that carried the first human to space.
11. Vehicle used to launch into space.
13. A US space explorer.
17. World's first and largest space launch facility located in Kazakhstan.
18. US President who pledged to land a man on the Moon.
20. Soviet/Russian space station that operated in low Earth orbit.
21. US program that landed the first humans on the Moon.
23. Relating to the Moon.
25. Series of spacecraft designed for the Soviet space program.
26. The first animal to orbit Earth, sent by the USSR.
27. International Space Station, a collaborative project including the US and Russia.