Space Flashcards
1
Q
First animal in space (dog, 1957)
A
Laika
2
Q
First satellite (1957)
A
Sputnik I
3
Q
First American satellite (1958)
A
Explorer I
4
Q
First man in space (1961, Vostok I)
A
Yuri Gagarin
5
Q
First American in space (1961)
A
Alan Shepard
6
Q
First American in orbit (1962)
A
John Glenn
7
Q
First spacewalk
A
Alexei Leonov
8
Q
First American spacewalk
A
Ed White
9
Q
First woman in space (1963)
A
Valentina Tereshkova
10
Q
First American woman in space
A
Sally Ride
11
Q
First African-American in space
A
Guion Bluford
12
Q
First men on moon (1969, Apollo 11)
A
Neil Armstrong, Edwin Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins
13
Q
American manned space programs
A
Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Space Shuttle
14
Q
Russian manned space programs
A
Vostok, Voskhod, Soyuz, Salyut
15
Q
Died in Apollo flash fire in 1967
A
Grissom, Chaffee, and White
