Space Race

This nation launched the first satellite

into space in 1957:

• United States

• Soviet Union

• China

• Germany

The first satellite launched into space

was called this:

• NASA

• Cosmonaut

• Sputnik

• Houston

Satellites can be used:

• To take photographs

• To collect information

• For communication purposes

• ALL of the above

A Soviet astronaut is known as a:

• Sputnik

• Satellite

• Pilot

• Cosmonaut

In 1962 this individual was the first

American to orbit Earth from space:

• Neil Armstrong

• John Glenn

• John F. Kennedy

• Thad Sputnik

The National Aeronautics and Space

Administration is known as this:

• U.S. Air & Space Program

• ASAN

• NATAERO

• NASA

The headquarters of NASA is located in

this Texas city:

• Houston

• San Antonio

• Orlando

• Oklahoma City

8. This U.S. President declared in 1962 that

“we choose to go to the moon”:

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• John F. Kennedy

• Herbert Hoover

This became the first nation to land a

person on the moon in 1969:

• United States

• Soviet Union

• China

• Germany

10. This was the first individual to land and

walk on the moon:

• Neil Armstrong

• John Glenn

• John F. Kennedy

• Thad Sputnik