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Space Exploration.

A. Holiday-makers in space

B. Yuri Gagarin, the first cosmonaut

C. Outer space as a workplace

D. Father of rocket science

E. The flight that changed the world

1.The history of space exploration in Russia started with Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a maths teacher from Kaluga. Tsiolkovsky never built or launched a rocked but he was the first person to understand the main ideas behind rocket scince – as early as 1903. He predicted and solved mani of the problems in rocket engineering, and he made designs for several rockets. He dreamt of a space age.

2.It was nearly 60 years before Tsiolkovsky’s dream came true. On 12’th April, 1961, at exactly 9.07 a.m. Vostok 1 lifted off for it’s 108-minute flight. There was one man inside – Yuri Gagarin, a soviet pilot and the first person in the world to fly into outer space. During his one orbit around the earth, Gagarin had some food and water; so he was also the first person to eat and drink in conditions of weightlessness. He didn’t have a camera to take photos, but he observed different parts of the earth.

3. Gagarin’s flight started a new stage in the history of exploration. It made more space travel possible. Now, 50 years later, many cosmonauts and engineers from different countries have made flights to outer space. Some of them have stayed in space for several months. They have done a lot of research and experiments.

4. In the 1990s Russian scientists started thinking about sending tourists into outer space. The world’s first space tourist was American millionaire, Dennis Tito. He went on an eight-day holiday in May 2001 in a Russian spaceship. He visited the International Space Station and landed afterwards in Kazakhstan with the two other members of the flight team. “I was worried that I might not feel well in space”, he said, “but I felt the best I’ve felt in my whole life. It was a trip to paradise”. Space scientists are now discussing the next idea: two-week space holiday with a trip around the moon $100 million. . . anyone interested?