Space Exploration 1960s / Apollo

April 12, 1961 The first human in space - Russian cosmonaut

• Neil Armstrong

• Laika

• Yuri Gagarin

• John Glenn

June 16, 1963 - Name the first woman (formerly a textile worker) in space

• Valentina Tereshkova

• Yelena Kondakova

• Sally Ride

• Natasha Rominoff

1958 - 1963 This was the first US program to put an astronaut in space

• Gemini

• Atlantis

• Apollo

• Mercury

Jan 31, 1961 - Who was America’s first live passenger into space?

• Laika

• Ham

• Felix

• Curious George

May 5, 1961 - As part of the Mercury program, who was the first NASA astronaut to journey into space?

• John Glenn

• Ed White

• Alan Shepard

• Buzz Aldrin

Feb 20, 1962 - He was the first American to orbit the Earth and served as an Ohio Democratic Senator for 24 years.

• Neil Armstrong

• John Glenn

• Ed White

• Buzz Aldrin

September 12, 1962 "We Choose to go to the Moon"

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Richard Nixon

• John F. Kennedy

1965 – The first space walk was performed by whom?

• Russian Cosmonaut: Aleksei Leonov

• American Astronaut: Ed White

The spacecraft built to take two astronauts into orbit for extended periods of time was

• Pioneer

• Voyager

• Apollo

• Gemini

What training method did astronauts use to practice for spacewalks?

• spinning on amusement park rides

• under water activities

• running through sand

• high elevation exercises