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1. In what year was the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) created?
2. The Soviets shocked the world in October 1957, when they launched what into space?
3. What was the name of the first, unsuccessful, U.S. satellite project?
4. What was the name of the first successful U.S. satellite project?
5. NASA figured in largely to what Cold War competition?
6. What did President Kennedy announce the United States would accomplish in a May 1961 speech?
7. At the end of World War II the United States took what country's rocket scientists and brought them to work in New Mexico?
8. What year did the first woman go into space?
9. What Caltech institution was founded in 1943 to develop missiles for the U.S. Army and is now a leader in space exploration?
10. Which of the following was not a name of a NASA space shuttle orbiter?