On April 12, 1961, Russian astronaut YuriGagarin became the first person in space. He died only seven years later on March 27, 1968 in 1 air crash during a training session. On January 28, 1986, seven American 2 (astronaut)(five men and two women)died when the space shuttle Challenger...
MIKE ECKEL
The first astronaut and the first woman astronaut were Russian, too. Yuri Gagarin made one orbit of the earth on April 12th, 1961. Gagarin died in a plane crash in 1968. Valentine Tereshkov a went into orbit on June 16th,1963. A Russian rocket took the first satellite to the moon, ...
Although the United States' 1969 Apollo 11 mission is often heralded as humanity's first successful moon landing, this sentiment fails to remember the Luna-2, a successful Russian lunar landing (albeit unmanned) that reached the moon's surface nearly a decade earlier. Regardless of the outcome ...
"He would've made a great American astronaut helping our heroine meet the challenge," said Shipenko. "It would've been great. This type of creative collaboration would've been akin to the Apollo-Soyuz docking. Too bad that Tom Cruise isn't going to space right now, that we won't meet...
【解题思路】根据第一段中的“Baldwin native and NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli could be the first woman on the moon”可知,Jasmin Moghbeli有望脊上 月球。故选C。 22.A 词义猜测题。 【解题思路】根据第五段内容可知,Moghbeli在麻省理 工学院获得了航空航天工程信息技术学士学位,在海 军研究生院获得...
NASA astronaut Ed White carried out the first U.S. spacewalk on June 3, 1965, floating free of his Gemini 4 capsule at the end of a long tether. Since then, NASA astronauts, Russian cosmonauts, Chinese taikonauts and astronauts from space station partner nations have carried out more ...
Space: the Final Frontier Part 1Ever since Neil Armstrong first set foot on the Moon back on 21st July,1969, people have become accustomed② to the ide a of space travel③. Millions of people watched that first moon landing on television, their hearts in their mouths,aware④ of how diffic...
“We’re proposing a vision where Canada could have an astronaut, effectively a Canadian who will be in lunar space, either in orbit or on the moon and could operate a Canadian rover in the same way that Canadians operate a Canadarm on the space station,” Piedboeuf said...
The "beeping" signal from Sputnik not only reminded everyone of Russian superiority, but it also galvanized public opinion in the U.S. The political backlash over the Soviets "beating" Americans to space led to some interesting and long-reaching results. The U.S. Defense Department immediately ...