Space Race Word Search
This Space Race word search covers the contest between the United States and the Soviet Union to reach space and then the moon: Sputnik and the dog Laika, Gagarin in Vostok, the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, the Saturn rocket and the lunar module Eagle.
The Soviet Union opened the race on October 4, 1957, with Sputnik, a metal ball about 23 inches wide that beeped as it circled the Earth every 96 minutes. A month later Sputnik 2 carried Laika. Yuri Gagarin became the first person in orbit on April 12, 1961, and Valentina Tereshkova the first woman in 1963. Alan Shepard's 15-minute flight in May 1961 made him the first American in space.
Weeks after Shepard's flight, President Kennedy asked Congress to land a man on the moon before the decade was out. Wernher von Braun's team built the Saturn V, still one of the most powerful rockets ever flown, and on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the Eagle in the Sea of Tranquility while Michael Collins circled overhead in the command module.
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Space Race has.
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In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
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- Aldrin
- Apollo
- Armstrong
- Baikonur
- Booster
- Cape Canaveral
- Capsule
- Collins
- Cosmonaut
- Countdown
- Docking
- Eagle
- Footprint
- Gagarin
- Gemini
- Glenn
- Heat Shield
- Houston
- Kennedy
- Korolev
- Laika
- Leonov
- Liftoff
- Lunar Module
- Mercury
- Mission Control
- Moon Rock
- Orbit
- Reentry
- Satellite
- Saturn
- Shepard
- Soyuz
- Spacewalk
- Splashdown
- Sputnik
- Tereshkova
- Tranquility
- Von Braun
- Vostok