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Space Race Quiz
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1
When was
NASA
created?
1961
1958
1975
1957
2
What was the name of the first American satellite?
Sputnik
Apollo 11
Luna 2
Explorer 1
3
The
Space Race
started after
World War II.
True
False
4
NASA
was created to gather military intelligence
False
True
5
Which country launched the first artificial satellite into Space?
Soviet Union
China
USA
Germany
6
Who was the first person to orbit Earth?
Yuri Gagarin
John Glenn
Neil Armstrong
Alan Shepard
7
Yuri Gagarin
was the first human in space.
False
True
8
The Soviet Union won the Space Race.
True
False
9
Which president declared that the U.S would land a man on the moon?
Richard Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Dwight Eisenhower
Franklin D. Roosevelt
10
What
year
did
Apollo 11
land on the moon?
1975
1971
1969
1967
11
What event marked the beginning of the
Space Race
?
Launch of Sputnik
Moon Landing
Apollo 11
Cuban Missile Crisis
12
Who was the first
American
to orbit the Earth?
John Glenn
Buzz Aldrin
Neil Armstrong
Alan Shepard
13
What was the name of
NASA
´s lunar landing program?
Project Apollo
Voyager
Corona
Project Mercury
14
Apollo 13 was the first mission to land on the moon.
False
True
15
What does ´
Sputnik
´ mean in Russia?
Traveler
Rocket
Star
Moon
