50 ! read information about space exploration. talk to your friend about it, using the past simple tense russia explores space sputnik1 1957: the first satllite 1957 : the first animal in earth orbit , the dog laika on sputnik 2 1961: the first prestion in space and in earth orbit yuri gagrin on vostok 1 1961 the first prestion to spend over 24 hoirs in space german titov vostok2 (also the nfirst person to sleep in space) 1963: the first woman in space valentina treshkova vostok61965: the first prestion to walk in space aleksey leonov voskhod2 1987: the first cominaits to spend over one year in space ladimir titov and musa manarov on board the space station mir

1)  Russia began exploring space with launchinig Sputnik-1 in 1957. 
2) Then the first animal was put into Earth's orbit , it was the dog Laika on Sputnik-2.
3)  On the 12th of April, 1961 the first person was launched into space and he orbited the Earth.
4) It was Yuri Gagrin who orbited the Earth on the spaceship Vostok-1  and he spent in space 108 minutes.
5) Cosmonaut number 2 was German Titov who spent 24 hours  in space.
He flew on the spaceship Vostok-2 in August,1961 and he was the first man to sleep in space.
6) The first woman in space was Valentina Treshkova who was launched on the spaceship Vostok-6 in 1963.
7) The first person to walk in space was cosmonaut  Aleksey Leonov.
 He was launched in space on the spaceship Voskhod-2 in 1965.
8) The first cosmonauts to spend over one year in space were Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov on board the space station Mir in 1987.