The Space Race

WHAT STARTED THE SPACE RACE ?  

• SOVIET UNION LAUNCHED  SPUTNIK 
• UNITED STATES ESTABLISHED NASA
• THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE APOLLO PROGRAM
• 1ST FEMALE COSMONAUT LAUNCHED INTO SPACE

HOW DID THE U.S. WIN THE SPACE RACE?  

• LAUNCHED THEIR OWN SATELLITE 
• LAUNCHED THEIR FIRST FEMALE ASTRONAUT INTO SPACE
• THE 1ST ASTRONAUTS ON THE MOON
• JOHN GLENN ORBITING THE EARTH

WHO WAS THE 1ST SOVIET COSMONAUT TO ORBIT  THE EARTH ?  

• JOHN GLENN
• VALENTINA TERESHKOVA
• YURI GAGARIN
• PAVEL POPOVICH

WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL DID THE U.S. USE TO LAUNCH INTO SPACE BEFORE HUMANS ?  

• CATS
• MONKEYS
• SNAKES
• DOGS

WHICH NATION WAS THE 1ST TO LAUNCH A WOMAN INTO SPACE?  

• SOVIET UNION
• UNITED STATES

WHICH PRESIDENT WAS COMMITTED TO SENDING A MAN TO THE MOON ?  

• LBJ
• JFK
• DWIGHT EISENHOWER

Who was the first American to orbit the Earth (think globe)?

• John Glenn

• Alan Shepard

• Neil Armstrong

• Yuri Gagarin

Why would Russia want to send a dog into space before a person?

• They wanted to see if dogs could live in space to be the astronaut’s pet.

• They wanted to make sure living things could survive before risking a person’s life.

• Dogs are smaller so they were cheaper to send into space.

• Dogs weigh less so it takes less space and less fuel to space.

A vehicle for exploring the surface of an extraterrestrial object.

• rover
• the International Space Station
• Observetory
• Space probe

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To which rocky planet are scientists planning a manned space mission to in 2025?

• Jupiter

• Mars

• Neptune

• Venus