1. Moon War
   Space Race
2. Mission: Luna

The competition to put a man on the moon first is more commonly known as the Space Race. The U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. both wanted to win.

1. WWI
   WWII
2. The Korean War

The Cold War came in the wake of WWII. This war pitted the two great powers of the world against one another.

1. 1969
   1971
2. 1975

Apollo 11 famously landed on the moon in 1969. Six more Apollo missions followed by the end of 1972.

1. Apollo 11
   Apollo 12
2. Apollo 13

Apollo 13 famously survived an explosion of an oxygen tank. This took place in the spacecraft's service module on the way to the moon.

1. Little One
   Traveler
2. Victory

Sputnik means "traveler" in Russian. It was the world's first artificial satellite and man-made object to be placed in orbit.

1. 1957
   1962
2. 1968

Sputnik was launched in 1957. It was sent into space by a Soviet R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile.

1. True
2. False

It is true that the launch of Sputnik was a surprise for Americans. And it wasn't a pleasant one, at that.

1. A new frontier
   An impossibility
2. A dark, scary place

To Americans, space was seen as the next frontier. It was a logical extension of the American tradition of exploration.

1. Military spending
   Nuclear capabilities
2. Demand for materials

The R-7 missile that launched Sputnik worried Americans deeply. It meant that the Russians were seemingly capable of launching a nuclear warhead into U.S. airspace.

1. Endeavor
   Explorer I
2. Cruiser XL

In response to Sputnik, the U.S. launched Explorer I. It was designed by the U.S. Army under the direction of Wernher von Braun.

1. Franklin D. Roosevelt
   Dwight Eisenhower
2. Lyndon B. Johnson

The order was signed by Dwight Eisenhower to create NASA. It was a federal agency dedicated to space exploration.

1. USSR
   USA
2. China

The Soviet space program took another big leap forward when they launched Luna 2 in 1959. It was the first space probe to hit the moon.

1. 1959
   1961
2. 1965

In 1961, the first person orbited Earth. His name was Yuri Gagarin, and he was from the Soviet Union.

1. Expedition Unknown
   Project Mercury
2. Operation Blast-Off

Project Mercury was the U.S.'s effort to send a man into space. NASA designed a small, cone-shaped capsule far lighter than the Russian version.

1. Alan Shepard
   Raul Christianson
2. Paul Jones

Alan Shepard was the first U.S. astronaut to be sent into space. However, he was not actually in orbit.

1. Lyndon B. Johnson
   Winston Churchill
2. John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy made the statement that the U.S. would put a man on the moon before the end of the decade. His claim ended up being true.

1. John Glenn
   Neil Armstrong
2. Tony Roma

John Glenn was the first American to orbit Earth. It took place in February 1962.

1. 50%
   100%
2. 500%

In a short span of years, NASA's budget was increased by 500%. Talk about heating up the competition!

1. 10,000
   20,000
2. 34,000

There were some 34,000 NASA employees involved in the firstmoon landing. There were also 375,000 employees of industrial and university contractors.

1. True
2. False

It's true that American astronauts were lost during an Apollo launch simulation. This took place in January of 1967.

1. Debate over necessity
   Death of the chief engineer of the space program
2. Both

The Soviet landing program lost speed due to a number of factors. One of them was the death of Sergey Korolyov, the chief engineer of the Soviet space program.

1. The Earth
   The moon
2. Mars

Apollo 8 was the first manned space mission to orbit the moon. It was launched from Merritt Island, near Cape Canaveral.

1. Neil Armstrong
   Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin
2. Michael Collins
   All of the above

These were the three brave astronauts aboard Apollo 11. They set off on July 16th, 1969.

1. 4
   7
2. 10

It was 4 days after takeoff that Apollo 11 successfully landed on the moon. Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon's surface.

1. True
2. False

It's true that by landing on the moon, the U.S.A. effectively won the space race. The Soviets would make four failed attempts to launch a lunar landing craft.

1. Television
   Art
2. Diplomacy

The new medium of television had a huge impact on the space race. Astronauts came to be seen as the ultimate American heroes.

1. Heroes
   Villains
2. The underdog

It was common during this time for Soviets to be pictured as villains. Their failed space attempts did not help this any.

1. Grew
   Diversified
2. Waned

In the wake of the space race, U.S. interest in lunar landings waned. It was ultimately about competition, after all.

1. 1975
   1985
2. 1995

1975 saw the Apollo-Soyuz mission where three U.S. astronauts were sent aboard an Apollo spacecraft that docked with a Soviet Soyuz vehicle. It was the "handshake in space" heard round the world.

1. A human
   A dog
2. A horse

Aboard Sputnik 2 there was a dog named Laika. Sputnik 2 was launched one month after Sputnik 1.

1. Tiros 1
   Helios A
2. Barium 2

Tiros 1 was launched by NASA as the first successful weather satellite. This took place in 1960.

1. Buzz Aldrin
   Yuri Gagarin
2. Neil Armstrong

This is a famous quote from Yuri Gagarin. Amidst the Cold War, he delivered a message of peace.

1. Technology
   Military firepower
2. Political-Economic system
   All of the above

Each nation sought to prove that it was superior. Space became the perfect place to prove a lot of things at the same time!

1. Construction of the Berlin Wall
   The Cuban Missile Crisis
2. War in Southeast Asia
   All of the above

All these events proved to be fuel for the fire of the Space Race. Tensions in general were at an all-time high between the U.S. and Russia.