A | B |
Neil Armstrong | First man to walk on the moon |
Robert Goddard | Launched the first successful liquid fuel rocket in 1926 |
Yuri Gagarin | First man to fly in space |
Chuck Yaeger | Broke the sound barrier |
John Glenn | First American to orbit the earth |
Alan Shepard | First American to go into space |
Gus Grissom | His Liberty Bell 7 sank after splashdown |
Hannah Reitsch | German pilot who flew the V1 Rocket. |
Werhner von Braun | German scientist who devleoped V1, V2,and Saturn V rockets |
John F. Kennedy | American president who decided that we would walk on the moon before the decade was up |
Sally Ride | First American woman who flew in space |
Glamorous Glennis | Plane flown by Chuck Yaeger when he broke the sound barrier |
Valentina Tareshkova | First woman in space |
Mercury | One man American spacecraft |
Gemini | Two man American spacecraft |
Apollo | Three man American spacecraft |
Shape of Soviet spacecraft | Sphere |
Shape of American spacecraft | Cone |
Necessary trio to launch a rocket | Fuel, oxygen, heat |
Sputnik | First satellite launched in 1959 |
Dog | Animal that the Soviets sent into space |
Monkey | Animal the Americans sent into space |