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Astronauts/Cosmonaut
Scholar Bowl Practice
Question | Answer |
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Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission and became the second person to walk on the Moon | Edwin "Buzz” Aldrin |
Commander of 1969 Apollo 11 mission and became the first person to walk on the Moon | Neil Armstrong |
Flew the Apollo 11 command module Columbia around the Moon while Aldrin and Armstrong walked on the moon | Michael Collins |
First man to orbit Earth (1961) | Yuri Gagarin (Russian) |
First American to orbit Earth (1962) | John Glenn (Also a senator for 24 years) |
First woman in space (orbited Earth 1963) | Valentina Tereshkova (Russian) |
First American woman in space (1983) | Sally Ride |
First American in space (1961) | Alan Shepard |
First man to walk in space (March 1965) | Alexei Leonov (Russian) |
First American to walk in space (June 1965) | Edward H. White (died 1967, alongside astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom and Roger B. Chaffee in a fire during pre-launch testing for Apollo 1 |