Walking on the moon by Ludmila Martinicka

The first rocket reached the space on October 3, 1942, it was a prototype of German V-2, on the test flight. The first satellite to orbit the Earth was launched by Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, named Sputnik. Soviet union also realized the first human spaceflight. The first cosmonaut in the space was Yuri Gagarin on the spaceflight called Vostok 1, that left Earth on April 12, 1961. It was five years later, in 1966, when the first man put his foot on the Moon. As this man said, it was a small step for a man, but big step for a mankind. Neil Armstrong was an American astronaut, test pilot, university professor and naval aviator. He performed the first manned docking of two spacecraft together with pilot David Scott on this mission. In half of a century people noted a great progress in the area of the space technology. Astronauts are sent to the Space on the missions. This year the first tourist joined one. Generally spaceflights are used in space exploration, but the commercial activities like satellite telecommunications and space tourism are becoming more and more common. To additional non-commercial uses of spaceflights belongs space observatories and earth observation satellites. That help us to get know the space around us better and also predict the weather or crashes. It also allow people to watch nice natural shows and helps to interactive educating.

by Ludmila Martinicka for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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