Humans and space

Plan:
Vocabulary list;
Some aspects of the history;
Some achievements;
Some problems;
List of sources;

Vocabulary list
Venture-предприятие;
Space junk-космический мусор;
Debris-обломки/мусор;
Satellite-спутник;
Collision-столкновение;
Velocity-скорость;
Cloistered-заточенный;
Gravitational embrace – «гравитационные объятия» = гравитационная сила

Space is always a question

Humans and space & history aspects
Rocket research began in the 1920s and accelerated during the Second World War
In the late 1940s, both America and the Soviet Union used captured German scientists and technology to launch their space programs.

12 April 1961 - Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to journey into space.
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968
A significant breakthrough

Another one famous person
An American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who was the first person to walk on the Moon.
July 1969Armstrong performed the first manned Moon landing and spent two and a half hours outside the spacecraft
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind"
Neil Alden Armstrong
August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012

Not only humans
Belka and Strelka are Soviet dogs-astronauts who made a space flight on the ship "Sputnik-5“, August 19, 1960

Space projects
The first space station, the Soviet Salyut 1, was launched in 1971, and two years later NASA’s Skylab followed

The amount of space debris

Space & Problems
!Space junk is one of the most important global problems
•Capture and return missions with special; satellites armed with nets and harpoons;
•Giant electromagnets
•Satellites with lasers
Possible solutions: