QUIZ: How Well Do You Know The 20th Century?

What major space event took place in 1969?

Retry Correct Incorrect When John F. Kennedy vowed that we would make it to the Moon by 1969, NASA kicked things into gear. In 1969, Apollo 11 made it to the moon, and Neil Armstrong became the first to set foot on it.

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What major space event took place in 1969?

• A robot was sent to Mars
• We landed on the moon
• A monkey orbited the Earth
• The first man went to space