International Flights into Space
Made by
Emyasheva L.V.
People have always dreamt of travelling in space and reaching other planets. At the beginning of the 20th century a famous Russian scientist Tsiolkovsky said that mankind will not live on the planet Earth forever. His predictions came true half a century later.
This first man who overcame gravitation was Yuri Gagarin. After successful orbiting, he returned to the Earth. This flight encouraged many other Russian cosmonauts to explore the outer space..
Another important event is space exploration took place on July 20, 1969. It was the day when the American astronaut Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon.
SPACE TOURISM
Apr 2001 Greg Olsen (US) Soyuz TMA-7, Oct 2005 Mark Shuttleworth (S. Africa/UK) Soyuz TM-34, Apr 2002 Anousheh Ansari (Iran/US) Soyuz TMA-9, Sep 2006 Charles Simonyi (Hungary/US) Soyuz TMA-10, Apr 2007 Richard Garriott (UK/US) Soyuz TMA-13, Oct 2008 US company Space Adventures forms agreement with Russian Space Agency for space tourism trips to International Space Station. Cost $20-30 million
The first space tourist in the world were Toyohiro Akiyama and Helen Sharman – citizens of Japan and the UK. They first made a sightseeing flight to the Soviet space station Mir on “Soyuz” ships in 1989 and 1990. The flight was sponsored within the bounds of non-state project of television company TBS and a consortium of British television .
The first international scientific space expeditions
1978 02.03 – 10.03 USSR – CZECHOSLOVAKIA. A. Gubarev, V. Remek. "Soyuz-28"
1978 27.06 – 05.07 THE USSR – PNR. P. Klimuk – M. Hermashevsky. "Soyuz-30"
1978 26.08 – 03.09 USSR – GDR. Bykovskiy – Z. Yen. "Soyuz-31"
1979 10.04 – 12.04 USSR – NRB. N. Rukavishnikov – Ivanov. "Soyuz-33 "
1980 26.05 – 03.06 THE USSR – HUNGARY. V. Kubasov, B. Farkas. "Soyuz-36"
1980 23.07 – 31.07 USSR – VIETNAM. Gorbatko – Pham Tuan. "Soyuz-37"
1980 18.09 – 26.09 USSR – Cuba. Y. Romanenko A. Tamayo Méndes. "Soyuz-38"
1981 22.03 – 30.03 USSR – MPR. V. Dzhanibekov – Zh. Gurragcha. "Soyuz-39"
1981 14.05 – 22.05 THE USSR – THE RAF. L. Popov And D. Prunariu. "Soyuz-
1982 24.06 – 02.07 USSR – France. V. Dzhanibekov, Ivanchenkov A. – J.-L. Chrétien.
"Soyuz T-6"
1984 03.04 – 11.04 The USSR – India. Y. Malyshev, G. Strekalov, R. Sharma. "Soyuz T-11"
1987 22.07 – 30.07 USSR – Syria. A. Viktorenko, A. Alexandrov, M. Faris "Soyuz TM"
December 21, 2009. Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia
In accordance with the International Space Station (ISS) Mission Program and the Russian commitments under this International Project, the Soyuz TMA-17 manned transport spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 00:52:00 Moscow Time.
The Soyuz TMA-17 crew: Oleg Kotov (Soyuz Commander, Russia), Thimothy J.Creamer (Flight Engineer, USA) and Soichi Noguchi (Flight Engineer, Japan)
. Space exploration is quickly progressing and it seems that soon we’ll be visiting other planets and even living on them. The 21st century may be the turning point. Our country has the only space station in the world, more launch vehicles than any other country and, of course, the only “real (long-term) experience” living and working in space. A lot of countries are involved in cooperative space projects with Russia.
We’ll be proud not only of our past achievements in the space but of the future ones as well.