KIDS QUIZ
SPACE EXPLORATION
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Apollo 13’s failure
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Apollo 11 landing on the moon
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Vostok 1 carrying 1st man in outer space
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Vostok 6 carrying 1st woman in outer space
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Detailed explanation-1: -The competition gained Western public attention with the “Sputnik crisis", when the USSR achieved the first successful satellite launch, Sputnik 1, on October 4, 1957.
Detailed explanation-2: -While it often fuelled Cold War rivalry and paranoia, the Space Race also yielded considerable benefits for human society. Space exploration required and produced rapid improvements and advances in many fields, including telecommunications, micro-technology, computer science and solar power.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Space Race spawned pioneering efforts to launch artificial satellites. It prompted competitive countries to send unmanned space probes to the Moon, Venus and Mars. It also made possible human spaceflight in low Earth orbit and to the Moon.