On April 12, 1961, Major Yuri Gagarin became the first man ever to venture into the
space. He did not know for certain beforehand that he chosen. The Russians had
three possible candidates rendy and although Gagarin was first on the list, the choice
was not definitely made until the early morning of April 12.
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All candidates had undergone strenuous training periods. They had wont long
sessions in the pressure chamber and the centrifuger. They had endured violent
extremes of sensation : a peaceful sleep, for instance, suddenly followed by an hour
of car-shattering noise, recorded on tape and amplified through enormous
loudspeakers in an enclosed room. Perhaps the worst of the ordeals was to be shut in
a darkened room for long, uncertain periods, in solitary confinement and complete
silence. Gagarin himself has described the experience.
"There was no sound, not even the slightest rustle. No movement of the air, nothing,
It was uncanny', unnerving?." He would shut his eyes and imagine himself in a
space-cabin in orbit, looking at the world passing beneath him; or sometimes he
would recite half remembered poetry to himself. Then came parachute training,
Gagarin made forty parachute jumps of gradually increasing difficulty,
One of the most interesting of the training experiments was the method of providing
experience of weightlessness. In the early stages the express lift of the great Moscow
University building was used. From the twenty-eighth floor to the bottom allowed questions write a summary of the above passage 80 to 100 words
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Every day, we travel many kilometres on bicycles, cars, bikes, trains and planes. But imagine if you were the first person to travel on one of these and go to a place no human had ever been before? How would you feel? Would you be trembling with excitement or nervous with fear or maybe a bit of both? Now, replace these familiar modes of transport with a spaceship and the journey you are making is to deep, dark space, far away from Earth!
This is the journey a brave young Russian cosmonaut named Yuri Gagarin made, on April 12, 1961, making him the first ever human in space. He was 27 when he orbited the Earth once during his 108-minute flight aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft. Today, people go regularly to the International Space Station and astronauts share their awe-inspiring pictures on Twitter. So, we may find it difficult to understand the gravity of this significant event.
But it was Gagarin’s successful flight that was an inspiration to achieve these scientific milestones. It made people more curious to know what made up our universe. It motivated people to reach for the moon and stars, literally!