Your turn 5 Is space travel a good idea? Write down two or three ideas. • Make notes to support your opinions. I think it's a very good idea because we've learnt so much from travelling into space. It's good for science, I'm not sure. It's very expensive to travel into space. It might be better to ...

My hero, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

Yuri Gagarin was the first cosmonaut in the world. Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin was born on the 9th of March, 1934. He was born in the village of Klushino in Smolensk region.

Yura was an active, brave and curious boy. His father helped his son when Yura made toy planes by hand. But the war began. Yuri Gagarin and his mother, father, brother and sister left their house and had to live in a dug-out. After the war Gagarin's family moved to Gzhatsk. Now it is the city of Gagarin. It was named after the first cosmonaut.

In 1951 Gagarin graduated from a vocational school in Lyubertsy near Moscow.

Yuri Gagarin attended an aeroclub and began to fly when he was a student of a technical secondary school in Saratov.

In 1955 he entered a school for pilots. Then he became a pilot and joined the first group of cosmonauts.

In 1960 Gagarin began to prepare for his flight into space.

On April 12,1961 Yuri Gagarin flew into space and spent 108 minutes there. It was the first time in history that the Russian spaceship "Vostok" with man on board was in space. After his flight he visited many countries and saw millions of people. Gagarin became a Hero of our country.

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