Cold War, Space Race, and Moon Landing

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962; The US discovered Soviet missiles in Cuba

The other item, besides a flag, that astronauts placed on the moon

A plaque

Buzz Aldrin

An Apollo 11 astronaut(not first on the moon)

National Defense Education Act

Encouraged secondary education to pursue math and science

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Established NASA

John Glenn

First American to go into orbit

Alan B. Shepard

First American to go into space (but not orbit)

Albert I the rhesus monkey

First animal to go into space in 1948

Alexei Leonov

First astronaut to complete a "space walk"

Valentina Tereshkova

First woman in space

JFK

Issued the challenge to land a man on the moon

The Eagle

Lunar module of Apollo 11; aka the part of the spacecraft that landed on the moon's surface

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Occurred in 1961 and drove Castro to the Soviets for aid

Michael Collins

Pilot of the Apollo 11; kept the spacecraft in orbit while the other two astronauts were on the moon

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"

Said by Neil Armstrong when he walked on the moon's surface

Sputnik 1

The Russian satellite that launched in October, 1957

Missile Gap

The fear that the USSR was far more advanced technologically than the US

Laika the dog

The first animal to go into orbit

Yuri Gagarin

The first human to go into orbit

Neil Armstrong

The first man to walk on the moon

Sea of Tranquility

The lunar landing site of the Eagle

Explorer 1

The satellite the US launched in response to the launching of Sputnik

Apollo 11

The spacecraft that successfully landed two men on the moon

Probe III

Unmanned Soviet spacecraft that reached Venus in 1966