Space Race

Which president vowed that the US would go to the moon?

• JFK

• LBJ

• Eisenhower

• Nixon

Who was the first American to orbit the earth?

• Allen Shepard

• John Glenn

• Neil Armstrong

• Buzz Aldrin

Which country sent the first woman into space?

• Great Britain

• The United States

• The Soviet Union

• None of these

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

In 1962 this individual was the first

American to orbit Earth from space:

• Neil Armstrong

• John Glenn

• John F. Kennedy

• Thad Sputnik

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

A Soviet astronaut is known as a:

• Sputnik

• Satellite

• Pilot

• Cosmonaut

This was the first individual to land and

walk on the moon:

• Neil Armstrong

• John Glenn

• John F. Kennedy

• Thad Sputnik