The Race
For Space
SPACE
VOCAVULARY
Explorer 1
Was the 1st American
satellite in space 1958
USA
John Glenn
John Glenn was the first
american to orbit earth,he
orbited earth for 3 times
Alan Shephard
He was the first
American in space.
The Apollo Project
This was a program
of space launches
with the goal of
astronauts to the
moon a bring the back
safely to Earth.
Apolo 11
Apolo 11 was the
first rocket with a
man to land on the
moon.
Neil Armstrong
He was the commander of
Apollo 11 and he made the
famous footstep that is still
on the moon.
Sputnik 1
Was the first
artificial earth
satellite to go
into space the 4
October 1957.
USSR
Sputnik 2
Was the first
spacecraft carrying
a living animal,a
dog called Laika
that was the 3
November 1957.
Yuri Gagarin
He was the first
human to go out in
space the 12 April
1961.
First Dual Space Launch
First rocket to have
two crew members.
1st woman in space
Valentina
Tereshkova was the
1st woman in space
the 16 June 1963.
1st space walk
Any time an astronaut gets out of a vehicle while in
space, it is called a spacewalk. A spacewalk is also
called an EVA. EVA stands for extravehicular
activity. The first person to go on a spacewalk was
Alexei Leonov. He was from Russia.
This book is about [the race for
space],that was the USSR vs
USA competition to reach the
space first,USSR was the first to
go out to space, but USA was
the first to go to the moon.
Carlos
Lorenzo
Y5–D