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Space Race: Multiple Choice

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Which country launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, in 1957?
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Who became the first human to travel into space, in 1961?
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Which 1969 mission first landed astronauts on the Moon?
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Who was the first person to walk on the Moon?
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Which U.S. agency was established in 1958 to lead the American space program?
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Who became the first American in space, on a 1961 suborbital flight?
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Who was the first American to orbit the Earth, in 1962?
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Who became the first woman in space, in 1963?
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Who performed the first spacewalk, in 1965?
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Which dog became the first animal to orbit the Earth, aboard Sputnik 2?
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Which NASA program of two-astronaut flights bridged the gap between Mercury and Apollo?
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Which 1970 mission survived an oxygen-tank explosion to return its crew safely?
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Who was the second person to walk on the Moon?
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Which U.S. president set the goal of landing a man on the Moon before the decade was out?
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Which spacecraft carried Yuri Gagarin on humanity's first spaceflight?
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Which secretive "chief designer" masterminded the early Soviet space triumphs?
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Which giant rocket launched the Apollo missions toward the Moon?
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Which Soviet probe achieved the first soft landing on the Moon in 1966?
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Which was the last crewed mission to land on the Moon?
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How many Apollo missions successfully landed astronauts on the Moon?
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Which Apollo 11 astronaut remained in lunar orbit while his crewmates walked on the surface?
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Which German-born engineer designed the Saturn V and led much of NASA's rocketry?
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Which Soviet probe first reached the Moon's surface, impacting it in 1959?
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Which 1959 Soviet probe returned the first photographs of the Moon's far side?
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The tragic 1967 Apollo 1 fire killed its three-astronaut crew during what kind of test?
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Which 1975 mission saw American and Soviet spacecraft dock together, easing the space rivalry?
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Which cosmonaut tragically died when his Soyuz 1 capsule's parachute failed in 1967?
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Which 1968 mission first carried humans around the Moon, famously reading from Genesis on Christmas Eve?
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Which American space station, launched in 1973, was the first crewed U.S. orbital outpost?
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Which Soviet cosmonaut was the second human in space, orbiting the Earth in 1961?
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What was the name of the first U.S. human spaceflight program?
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What was the name of the U.S. program responsible for the Moon landings?
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What is the Soviet and Russian term for a space traveler?
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What was the name of the first U.S. satellite, launched in 1958 in response to Sputnik?
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The phrase "Houston, we have a problem" refers to NASA's mission control center in which U.S. state?
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The original group of seven U.S. astronauts were known by what collective nickname?
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What was the name of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module that landed on the Moon?
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What was the name of the Apollo 11 Command Module that remained in lunar orbit?
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Who was the first American to perform a spacewalk?
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What object did the Apollo 11 astronauts famously plant on the Moon's surface?
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Which U.S. state is home to Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center?
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What was the name of the Soviet program that launched the first human into space?
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Who was the U.S. president at the time of the first Moon landing in 1969?
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The first space mission to carry a multi-person crew was which Soviet flight?
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The first time two crewed spacecraft rendezvoused in orbit involved which pair of NASA missions?
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The first docking of two spacecraft in orbit was achieved during which NASA mission?
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The first U.S. probe to successfully fly by another planet was Mariner 2, which visited...?
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The first probe to successfully land on another planet and transmit data was the Soviet Venera 7, which landed on...?
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The Lunar Roving Vehicle, or "Moon buggy," was first used on which mission?
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Who was the influential NASA flight director who led Mission Control during the Apollo 11 and 13 missions?
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The failed Soviet rocket designed to compete with the Saturn V for the Moon race was called the...?
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The first living beings to circle the Moon and return safely to Earth were tortoises, aboard which 1968 Soviet mission?
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What was the name of the first U.S. spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, in 1966?
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During the Apollo 14 mission, astronaut Alan Shepard famously did what on the lunar surface?
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The three astronauts of the ill-fated Apollo 1 mission were Gus Grissom, Ed White, and who else?
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The "Little Joe II" rocket was used by NASA for what purpose during the Apollo program?
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During the Gemini 8 mission, Neil Armstrong had to abort early after a stuck thruster caused a dangerous...?
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The Soviet Luna 1 probe was the first spacecraft to fly past the Moon, but what was its original intended mission?
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The Apollo Guidance Computer software was largely written by a team led by which pioneering computer scientist?
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Who was the commander of the Voskhod 2 mission, during which Alexei Leonov performed the first spacewalk?
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