1. By Cassia Arnold

2.  First steps means how men stared to exploring
space using satellites.
 There are five satellites to be first at something.
 In 1957 sputnik 1 was the first satellite to orbit Earth and send back radio signals.
 In1957 sputnik 2 was the first satellite to send a dog into space.
 In 1959 explorer 6 was the first satellite to send back TV pictures of Earth.
 In 1960 tiros1 was the first satellite to send back weather information to Earth.
 In 1960 echo 1 was the first satellite to relay voice and TV signals from one point on
Earth to another.
 Laika the dog was the first creature in space.

3.  On April 12,1961 ,soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin
blasted off in his spacecraft . This mission was
the first to send a human being in to space.
 He spent almost two hours out there, orbiting
earth one time.
 The next year astronaut John Glenn blasted off
in the spacecraft Friendship 7 and orbited Earth
three times.

4.  Apollo 7 carried three astronauts into space.
They tested the spaceship that would soon take
men to the moon.
 The lunar module was a special spacecraft. It
was built for one purpose only.
 After exploring the moon, the two astronauts
would blast off from the moon’s surface in the
lunar module.

5.  The United states made it to the moon first.
 Scientists hoped to build a space station.
 Their answer was the space shuttle.
 This was the first space craft ever built that
could be used more than one time.

6.  But many has unmanned space crafts have
explored the planets of our solar system and
beyond.
 Mariner explored the atmosphere of mars.
 Most recently, the Cassini - Huygens spacecraft
sent back pictures of the surface of Saturn
largest moon, Titan.
 Many people on earth explore the night sky
with a telescope.

7.  We’ve been exploring space for almost 50
years.
 We’ve learned about space from manned space
missions, satellites, unmanned probes, and
telescopes.

8. Space travel is dangerous and expensive. Is it
worth it? I think if it is a good mission then
yes.
Was laika’s death a waste? I do not think so.
Would you be a good astronaut ? I would be a
good astronaut.
If you could explore space or the deep sea which
would you explore and why?
The deep sea because it seems more beautiful.