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
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.