1.humans in space
1.'I see Earth. It's so beautiful.
2.These are the first word spoken by s human in space. On 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin become the first human in space when he flew around the Earth in a space craft called vostok. He was only twenty seven at the tume. The spacecraft flew at a speed of over 27000 kilometres an hour more than 300 kilometres above the Earth. The flight lasted 108 miutes.
3.Gadarin volunteered to become one of the first Soviet astronauts without sovnd or light for twenty-four hours! The fight of Vostoki made him fameus all-around the world,and he became a hero in the Soviet Union. He never went into space again,but he hel ped train other astronauts until he died in a plane crash in 1968.
4.There were six Vestole flights.While the first lasted less tham two hours,vostok 2 stayed in space for more than twenty-five hours. It flew arovnd the Earth seventeen time! Later Vostok flights lasted even longer and vostok 6 took the firest woman Valentina Tereshkora,into space on 16 June 1963.
5. No one was cer tain if the astronauts who went on these flights could com back alive. But they did,and our ideas about space were change forever.