The Space Race

3. First American to walk in space during the Gemini 4 mission
6. The American manned spaceflight program that successfully put 12 astronauts on the lunar surface
8. First artificial satellite to orbit Earth, launched by the USSR in 1957
10. The Apollo 11 spacecraft that safely carried the first humans to the lunar surface
11. U.S. space agency established in 1958 in response to the Soviet satellite launch
13. The first American in space aboard the Freedom 7 capsule (1961)
15. The ultimate goal of the Space Race, successfully achieved by NASA on July 20, 1969

1. The first human to journey into outer space (USSR, 1961)
2. Cosmonaut who became the first woman to fly into space
4. The massive, multi-stage rocket developed by Wernher von Braun that launched lunar missions
5. President who famously promised to put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s
7. Famous dog who became the first animal to orbit Earth
9. First American to orbit the Earth in the Friendship 7 spacecraft
12. Famous astronaut who was the second person to walk on the moon
14. The intense period of geopolitical tension between the US and USSR that drove the Space Race