Yuri Gagarin By Deji Suleman
Yuri Gagarin was born on the 9th of March 1934. His mother was Anna and his father was Aleksey. In school Gagarin was inspired be his teacher who taught maths and science. The reason why he was inspired was because his teacher was in the military air force and that inspired him to fly. For most of Gagarin’s life he was raised by his older siblings because his parents were always busy and never home. In high school Gagarin joined the flying club and learned how to fly an aircraft.
In 1955 he entered the military flight training. Also, in 1957 Gagarin was a military fighter pilot. By 1959 he was selected for the first group of the USSR cosmonauts. He was the selected for the Soviet Space Program. He was a soviet pilot and Cosmonaut. He graduated with a MiG-15. He won the 1960 air medal.
Yuri Gagarin’s famous mission was the Vostok 1. He orbited the Earth. He was also the first man in space. When he blasted off his farewell words were `Poykhalik`. It was blasted off on April 12th 1961 at 6:07 am. He was at an altitude of 303km Gagarin famously recorded back to the station ‘The Earth is blue How wonderful’. It is amazing. 23000ft into the air and he deployed a descend capsule heading to Kazakhstan and he was the first man in space.
In 1957 Yuri Gagarin met his wife Valentina Goryecheva. She worked in a medical school. They also married in the same year 7th of November and had two kids named Yelena Yarievna Gagarina and Galina Yurievna Gagarina. Tragedy struck on the 27th of March 1968 when a plane crash in Kirzhach. Soon after his death a funeral and a 12mile parade was held. He was cremated and his and his instructor’s ash were built into a wall as a tribute. Yuri’s children are still living healthy today.
Valentina Tereshkova By Nathan Stoica
Valentina Tereshkova was born on march 6th,1937 in the village of Bolshoi, Malennihovo located in the Yaroslava oblast of central Russia. She grew up in a pleasant family and faced financial hardships after her dad was killed in WWII.
Valentina Tereshkova made history on June 16th 1963 when she became the first woman to fly space aboard the space craft Vostok 6. During her mission she orbited the earth 48 times that’s about 3 days.
Valentina Tereshkova’s most mission was her flight aboard the Vostok 6 spacecraft. This mission made her the first woman to fly to space. Valentina is still alive up to this day. She stopped flying after her first flight to space.
Neil Armstrong By Filip Wojchiechowski
Neil Armstrong grew up in Wapakoneta, Ohio as the eldest of three children. When he was six he flew on an aeroplane for the first time. He earned his pilots license on his 16TH Birthday and became a naval air cadet the following year.
Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer. In 1969 he became the first person to walk on the moon. He was also a naval test pilot and a university professor.
Neil Armstrong was the first human to walk on the surface of the moon. He was an astronaut who flew on two space missions. The first one was the Gemini 8 and the second one was the Apollo 11 which landed on the moon in 1969. Edwin Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins and Neil Armstrong were on board of the Apollo 11. On the 20th of July 1969 the lunar module part of the spacecraft called Eagle landed in the sea of tranquillity on the moon. Neil Armstrong told base, ‘The eagle has landed’. He then became the first man to actually step on the moon and walk on the moon. He said the historic words ‘that’s one small step for man one giant leap for mankind’. There was a live video when Neil Armstrong climbed down the ladder to the surface of the moon.
Neil Armstrong died on August the 25th 2012 in Cincinnati, Ohio from issues related to a heart operation. Armstrong had married twice and had two sons and many grandchildren. Though he desired obscurity word of his death made national news and was reported on many major news outlets.
He had several close calls in flight. Many people remember Armstrong as the calm commander who landed the Apollo 11 on the moon in 1969.
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