Space Exploration Mankind always dreamed of overcoming gravitation and reaching other planets. But it was
only in the 1960ies that this dream was to become reality.
On the 12th of April 1961 the spaceship «Vostok» was launched into space with a man on
board and after orbiting our planet successfully returned to the Earth.
The first man to overcome gravitation and orbit the Earth was Yuri Gagarin. This day
went down in history of mankind as an outstanding achievement, opening the space era.
In the course of space exploration there have been lots of achievements of world science
and technology. This period saw the launching of many earth satellites, numerous space
laboratories. Among the achievements we may enumerate the landing of automatic stations
on the Moon, the flights of space laboratories towards Venus and Mars.
These are the years of manned space flight programmes: Valentina Tereshkova was the
first woman-cosmonaut to make a space flight, A. A. Leonov achieved the first «space walk»
in 1965, the first Soviet experimental station with four cosmonauts on tjoard went into orbit,
the first American expedition landed on the Moon.
The Soviet "«Lunokhod», automatic orbital stations «Soyuz» and other space laboratories
opened up a new period of space exploration. From the first experiments scientists went over
to systematic exploration of space.
Recently there have been calls to reduce expenditure on space research programmes. I
think it would be a serious mistake to allow this to happen.
There is a direct link between the development of space research programmes and
different earth technologies. The higher the former are the more developed the latter are.
Задание 3. ответьте на вопросы.
1. What did mankind always dream about?
2. When did this dream become reality?
3. When was the spaceship «Vostok» launched?
4. Was Yuri Gagarin the first man to overcome gravitation and orbit the Earth?

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