The Post Quiz: Who Won the Space Race?

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The Post Quiz: Who Won the Space Race?

If you're old (like the Editor), you remember the 'space race'. If you're young, you yawn when somebody raves about the first salad grown in orbit. But who won that race? Decide who accomplished each 'first': was it a US or Russian/Soviet achievement?

FIRSTRussian/SovietUSA
First 'rocket equation'  
First liquid fuel rocket  
First satellite  
First human in space  
First scientific discovery by spacecraft  
First artificial planet of the Sun  
First woman in space  
First humans on moon  
First spacecraft to pass Jupiter  
First international cooperative space flight  

Got your thoughts in orbit? Click the picture for the answers.

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