The Space Race

After World War II, from what country did the United States and the Soviet Union get many of their rocket scientists?

• France

• Germany

• Japan

• China

What is considered to be the starting point of the Space Race?

• When President Kennedy announced U.S. plans to put a man on the moon.

• When the U.S. created NASA to explore space.

• When USSR launched the satellite Sputnik.

• When American astronaut Alan Shepherd reached outer space.

___________ was the first satellite launched into space.

• Vangaurd

• Explorer 1

• Sputnik 1

• Orbitor1

Which is not a true statement about the launch of Sputnik.

• Showed that the Soviets now had the technology to launch ICBMs from Europe to the US

• The US developed DERPA and NASA in responce

• It was the first event of the Space Race

• It was a European Satellite

Which president established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration?

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• John F. Kennedy

• Richard Nixon

Who was the first American to orbit the Earth?

• Neil Armstrong

• John Glenn

• Michael Collins

• Buzz Aldrin

In 1961, John F. Kennedy challenged the US to put a man on the moon by the end of __________.

• the year

• the decade

• 1970

• the 20th Century

What is the name of the program, directed by NASA, designed to stage a series of space test flights between 1961 and 1963?

• Gemini Project

• Apollo Program

• Manhatten Project

• Mercury Project

What NASA program put people on the moon?

• Apollo Program

• Gemini Project

• Mercury Project

• Apollo–Soyuz Project

When did the Space Race end?

• 1969 - Moon Landing

• 1971 - Russia launches first Space Station

• 1973 - Last mission to the Moon

• 1975 - Apollo-Soyuz meeting up in space