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Space Race Quiz
December 24, 2020
</p> <section> <h2> <p>Space Race Quiz</p> </h2> <p><p><em>By John Moser</em></p> <p></p> <p>July 20, 1969, marks the 50th anniversary of U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin’s historic walk on the moon. “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind,” Armstrong famously said, as an estimated 530 million viewers worldwide watched on their televisions. The landmark moon landing was just one of many events that affected the Space Race, the Cold War competition between the United States and the then Soviet Union in the area of space exploration.</p> <p></p> <p>The quiz below, from the <a href="www.ashbrook.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ashbrook Center</a> at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio, provides an opportunity for you to test your knowledge of the moon landing and the larger Space Race.</p> <p></p> <p><em>John Moser is professor of history at Ashland University and co-chair of the Ashbrook Center’s Master of Arts in American History and Government program for teachers.</em></p> </p> </section> <section> <h2> <p><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent;">The Soviet Union was the first to launch an artificial satellite into space. In what year did this occur?</span></p> </h2> </section> <section> <h3> <p><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent;">Who was the first person who went into space?</span></p> </h3> </section> <section> <h3> <p><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent;">What was the name of the United States’ first manned mission into space?</span></p> </h3> </section> <section> <h3> <p><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent;">Under what president and in what year was the National Aeronautics and Space Administration created?</span></p> </h3> </section> <section> <h3> <p><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent;">Which president said: “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win?”</span></p> </h3> </section> <section> <h3> <p><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent;">Which of the words below are unrelated to the first moon-landing mission?</span></p> </h3> </section> <section> <h3> <p><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent;">In 1957, the Soviet Union sent a dog into space. What was the dog’s name?</span></p> </h3> </section> <section> <h3> <p><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent;">In which state is the Kennedy Space Center, NASA’s primary launch site, located?</span></p> </h3> </section> <section> <h3> <p><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent;">Who was the first woman in space?</span></p> </h3> </section> <section> <h3> <p><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent;">By the 1980s, the United States was collaborating with other countries to build an inhabitable International Space Station. Which of the following countries is not involved in the ISS?</span></p> </h3> </section> <section></section> <section></section> <section></section> <section></section> <section></section> <section></section> <section></section> <section></section> <section></section> <section></section> <p>
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