The Space Race Quiz

Who became the first person to orbit the earth?

• Alan Shepard

• John Glenn

• Yuri Gagarin

• Neil Armstrong

Which spacecraft was used for the first manned moon landing?

• Vostok 1

• Sputnik 1

• Freedom 7

• Apollo 11

Who was the Nazi engineer captured by the Americans who would lead the Space Programme?

• Buzz Aldrin

• Von Braun

• Van Gogh

• Neil Armstrong

Which country achieved the first successful satellite launch into orbit?

• United States

• China

• Germany

• Soviet Union

Who was the first woman to travel in space?

• Sally Ride

• Mae Jemison

• Christa McAuliffe

• Valentina Tereshkova

Which program was launched to develop the technology needed for the Apollo program?

• Gemini program

• Sputnik program

• Mercury program

• Vostok program

Who was the Soviet cosmonaut that achieved the first spacewalk?

• Valentina Tereshkova

• Sergei Korolev

• Alexi Leonov

• Yuri Gagarin

Which US president made the bold claim that America would be the first to land a man on the moon?

• John F. Kennedy

• Richard Nixon

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

What was the joint US-Soviet space flight called in 1975?

• Gemini 7

• Apollo 11

• Soyuz 1

• Apollo-Soyuz mission

Who became the first man to walk on the moon?

• John Glenn

• Neil Armstrong

• Michael Collins

• Buzz Aldrin