Quiz  /  Space Race

  • 1. 
    The Space Race was a part of what war?

  • Cold War
  • World War II
  • Vietnam War
  • Korean War

  • 2. 
    After World War II, from what country did the United States and the Soviet Union get many of their rocket scientists?

  • Italy
  • Japan
  • France
  • Germany

  • 3. 
    What was the name of the first satellite launched into orbit?

  • Sputnik I
  • Vostok I
  • Explorer I
  • Apollo 11

  • 4. 
    Which country first put a manned spacecraft into orbit?

  • Soviet Union
  • France
  • United States
  • China

  • 5. 
    Who was the first American to orbit the Earth?

  • Donald Slayton
  • Virgil Grissom
  • John Glenn
  • Neil Armstrong

  • 6. 
    What was the name of the program that helped to develop a lot of the technology for the Apollo program?

  • Gemini
  • Manhattan
  • Sputnik
  • Friendship

  • 7. 
    American space pilots were called astronauts. What were Soviet space pilots called?

  • Cosmonauts
  • Comradnauts
  • Mocovites
  • Brezhnevers

  • 8. 
    Who was the first man to set foot on the Moon?

  • Neil Armstrong
  • Yuri Gagarin
  • Alan Shepherd
  • Buzz Aldrin

  • 9. 
    What was the name of the lunar module that landed on the Moon?

  • The Gemini
  • The Luna
  • The Apollo
  • The Eagle

  • 10. 
    What year did the Space Race end with the Apollo-Soyez joint program mission?

  • 1975
  • 1965
  • 1968
  • 1970
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