Read the statements before you read the article. Tick T (true) or F (false) 1 Project Apollo was a Russian moon-landing project. 2 Man first landed on the moon in 1979. 3 Yuri Gagarin was the first man to walk on the moon. 4 Apollo 13 was the first manned spacecraft to land on the moon. 5 In total, 12 people have landed on the moon. 6 Eugene Cernan waked on the moon in 1972. Now read the article and check your answers. Rewrite the false answers correctly. Back in the 1960s, the Russians and Americans were in what's known as a 'space race'. Each country wanted to beat the other in space achievements. After Russian cosmonaut. Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit the Earth, the Americans knew the race was on. President Kennedy announced in 1961 that NASA would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. After the speech, Project Apollo was born. Possibly the most famous Apollo mission took place in 1969 when Neil Armstrong, in his Apollo 11 spacecraft, became the first human to land on the moon. Since Neil Armstrong took those famous first lunar steps, only 11 other people have walked on the surface of the moon. The last person to do so was Eugene Cernan who led the final Apollo mission, Apollo 17, in 1972.