Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Yuri Gagarin
April 1961
USSR's first
2. Alan Shepard's ride
First American to fly
High enough for space
3. Virgil's little hop
Hatch blew open at the end
Grissom took a bath
4. Gherman Titov's flight
First to sleep in outer space
First to vomit too
5. Future Senator
Flew aboard the shuttle too
Took three laps in space
6. Named for Northern lights
Missed the landing by a bunch
May of '62
7. May of '63
Gordon Cooper was his name
End of Mercury
8. Longest flight alone
Flew near Tereshkova's craft
June of '63
9. Tereshkova's ride
Not a man's club any more
Last time Vostok flew
10. March of '65
Walk in space for Leonov
First to do it too
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