space race

Who Won The Space Race?

• Neil Alden Armstrong

• Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin

• Mícheál Seán Ó Coileáin

• all of the above

what event happened on October 4th 1957?

• when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik

• Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin reached the moon

why is the space race still important today?

when did the space race begin?

• 1945

• 1965

• 1955

What does "Sputnik" mean?

• traveler

• universe

• space

when was NASA founded?

• 1958

• 1978

• 1968

Which president signed the order that authorized the formation of NASA?

• Roosevelt

• Eisenhower

• Kennedy

What was the name of the first space probe to actually hit the moon?

• Sputnik

• Explorer

• Luna 2

Who was the first human to orbit the Earth?

• Alan Shepard

• John Glenn

• Yuri Gagarin

Bonus

Which president boldly claimed in 1961 that the U.S. would land a man on the moon by the end of the decade?

• Eisenhower

• Kennedy

• Johnson