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The Space Race in order

Sixteen firsts from almost twenty years of rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. Sort them from Sputnik onwards.

Format
Put them in order
Items
16 to sort
Limit
None
Level
Medium
Checked
2026.10.03

See every entry and put the whole list in order.

Entries
16
Sort by
Date
Time limit
None
  • Touch screens start in Tap mode: tap the entries in order, and tap one again to take it back.
  • Drag mode: drag an entry (press and hold on a phone), or use the arrow buttons.
  • Keyboard: space to pick up, arrows to move, space to drop.
  • Pause whenever you like (Esc). The board hides while the clock is stopped.

About this quiz

The Space Race grew out of the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union took most of the early firsts; the United States reached the Moon.

  • Gagarin's flight came just over three weeks before Alan Shepard's.
  • Valentina Tereshkova orbited the Earth 48 times in Vostok 6.
  • Alexei Leonov's first spacewalk lasted twelve minutes.
  • In 1975 the commanders Tom Stafford and Alexei Leonov met in orbit on the Apollo-Soyuz mission.

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