The Space Race

The Space Race-True or False?

You will be faced with a series of events that happened during the Space Race. It is up to you to decide if they are true or false!

Multiple Choice

True or False?

The USSR sent a dog called Laika in November 1957 to orbit the earth. Laika did not return home.

• True

• False

True!

• Laika was one of the first animals in space and the first animal to orbit the earth!

• Laika was selected to be the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 that was launched into outer space on 3 November 1957

• Unfortunately Laika did not return home

Multiple Choice

True or false?

Yuri Gagarin was the first human sent into space, he was from the USSR.

• True

• False

True!

• Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet Union Air Force pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey to outer space

• On 12th April 1961, in the spacecraft Vostok 1 he orbited the earth in approximately 108 minutes.

• Gagarin became an international celebrity and was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union, his nation's highest honour.

Multiple Choice

True or false?

In 1964, Mariner 4, was sent by the USA to take photographs in Space. It was the first probe to take pictures of Mars in 1964.

• True

• False

True!

• Mariner 4 was a spacecraft intended for planetary exploration in a flyby mode.

• On November 28th 1964 Mariner 4 performed the first successful flyby of the planet Mars, returning the first close-up pictures of the Martian surface.

• It captured the first images of another planet ever returned from deep space.

Multiple Choice

True or false?

Ed White, from the USA, became the first astronaut to go on a ‘spacewalk’ in April 1965.

• True

• False

False!

• Alexei Leonov, from the USSR was the first astronaut to go on a ‘spacewalk’ in April 1965.

• He exited the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for 12 minutes and 9 seconds.

• A spacewalk is a walk made outside a craft orbiting Earth (such as the International Space Station)

Multiple Choice

True or false?

Luna 9 was the first uncrewed (no one on it) space mission probe that landed on the moon. It was sent by the USSR.

• True

• False

True!

• On 3rd February 1966, Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to achieve a 'soft landing' on the moon.

• The purpose of Luna 9 was to take images of the moon's surface.

Multiple Choice

True or false?

Buzz Aldrin was the first man to step foot on the moon?

• True

• False

False!

• Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon.

• The USA sent Apollo 11 containing 3 astronaughts-Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins into space on 16th July 1969.

• Armstrong and Aldrin completed experiments and collected fragments of rocks. Collins took photographs of the moon.