Mankind always dreamed of overcoming gravitation and reaching other planets. But it was only in the 1960ies that this dream was to become reality.
On the 12th of April 1961 the spaceship «Vostok» was launched into space with a man on board and after orbiting our planet successfully returned to the Earth.
The first man to overcome gravitation and orbit the Earth was Yuri Gagarin. This day went down in history of mankind as an outstanding achievement, opening the space era.
In the course of space exploration there have been lots of achievements of world science and technology. This period saw the launching of many earth satellites, numerous space laboratories. Among the achievements we may enumerate the landing of automatic stations on the Moon, the flights of space laboratories towards Venus and Mars.
These are the years of manned space flight programmes: Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman-cosmonaut to make a space flight, A. A. Leonov achieved the first «space walk» in 1965, the first Soviet experimental station with four cosmonauts on tjoard went into orbit, the first American expedition landed on the Moon.
Thank you for your letter. I don't think we are great travelers in our family. But we sometimes make open-air journeys all together or my daddy and me. Mom is not so fond of walking on foot and camping. Our favorite route is travelling in the nearest countryside, which is sometimes very exciting, if the weather doesn't spoil the impression. We have a kind of our place in the local forest where we usually stay.
It's great that you've started writing books. What genre are you interested in? Do you write novels or stories? How do your parents find your hobby? I hope you'll email a copy to me. I'm really excited to read it.
I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
Love,
Michel