A few hundred years ago travelling to the New World was very (1) e.g. dangerous. Today (2) ...
into space is as difficult as opening a new continent.
Scientists have done a lot to make space travelling
less dangerous. To travel into space a spaceship
needs as much fuel as 42,000 cars! The (3) ...
from Earth to space lasts around 8 minutes. Space
starts at 100 km above the Earth.
Russian spaceman Yuri Gagarin was the (4)
human in space. His flight was in April 1961.
The first (5) ... is Valentina Tereshkova. She flew
in June 1963. Before her flight she was a factory
worker. She loved sport and went parachuting.
The first Uzbek spaceman is Vladimir Dzhanibekov.
When he was at school, his favourite (6) ...
were physics and mathematics. His hobbies are
photography and painting. Most of his works are
about space. People can see them in museums
and private collections. He is also interested in
ballooning and flying around the world.
Neil Armstrong was the first man, who (7) ... on
the moon. It happened in July 1969. Since 2000,
(8) ... from different countries can live and work at
the International Space Station.перевод ,поставлю высший