History of Space Exploration

​ flew NASA's first crewed ​ spaceflight ​ which flew safely for ​ in ​ .

• Alan Shepard

• suborbital

• Freedom 7

• 15 minutes

• 1961

Who was the astronaut who first walked on the Moon?

• Buzz Lightyear

• Buzz Aldrin

• Neil Young

• Neil Armstrong

Who started the "race to the moon?"

• Joe Biden

• Donald Trump

• Bill Clinton

• John F. Kennedy

Who launched the first artificial satellite?

• United States

• France

• Soviet Union

• China

What year was the first artificial satellite launched?

• 1973

• 1953

• 1957

• 1977

What did the launch of Sputnik I begin?

• Period of Space

• Space Wars

• Space Race

• Space Age

In what year did the US launch Explorer I?

• 1958

• 1948

• 1968

• 1978

Who was the first woman in space?

• Valentina Tereshkova

• Svetlana Cherakova

• Sally Ride

• Miss Piggy

What was the primary goal of NASA's Apollo program?

• To build the first space station

• To explore the asteroid belt

• To land a man on the Moon and return him safely to Earth

• To send a manned mission to Mars

Who was the first human to travel into space?

• Yuri Gagarin

• Neil Armstrong

• Buzz Aldrin

• John Glenn