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