"Read and write the words."
On October 4, 1957,
put its first satellite into space, it
One month later
was called Sputnik 1 and it weighed
the Russians put another satellite into space. This satellite carried the world's
first space traveller, a dog called
Three and a half years later, in April 1961, Yuri Gagarin from Russia went
round the world
in a satellite. He was the first man to fly
in space.
to
These satellites fly fast. When John Glenn was the first
fly in space round the world, his spacecraft was travelling at
kilometres an hour only five minutes after it left the earth.
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