Some time ago, for the first time in ____, a ____ being travelled into space. His name was Yuri Gagarin, and this is the ____ of his flight. In ____, the Soviet Union opened the space ____ by launching the first artificial ____ – Sputnik 1. After that, the Soviet officials started thinking about the next ____ – putting the first human into the Earth’s orbit. The ____ built for the mission was called Vostok 1. As the Soviet Union was in a ____ to win the Space Race with the USA, some ____ components were not installed in the spacecraft in ____ to save time. For instance, Vostok 1 had no ____ escape system and soft landing system. On April 12, ____, Vostok 1 with Yuri Gagarin on board was ____ from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. As the spacecraft ____ off the ground, Gagarin said his famous ____ “Poyekhali!” In ____, the flight went quite well. One of the few moments when Gagarin felt really stressed was during the ____ phase. When the spaceship ____ the Earth’s atmosphere. The landing also didn’t go quite as planned. Due to a ____ in the braking system, Vostok 1 missed the originally intended ____ site. When Gagarin ____ from the capsule, he saw that, instead of dry land, ____ him was the river Volga. Fortunately, he was able to ____ the parachute away from the water and land on the ground. After the ____, Yuri Gagarin became a ____ hero and a ____ celebrity. Newspapers around the world ____ his biography and details of his flight. He also visited about 30 countries in the years following the flight. ____ being such a famous person, Gagarin was very ____, always ____ his famous wide smile. “I’m an ____ Russian man.” He will be always ____ for his heroic flight that ____ the way for further space ____ and ____ that for a human anything is ____.

First man in Space

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