Read the information about space exploration . Talk to your friend about it, using the Past Simple Tense
Russia explores space
1957 : the first satellite Sputnik 1
1957 the first animal in Earth orbit the dog Laika on Sputnik 2
1961 the first in space and in Eart orbit Yuri Gagrin on Vostok 1
1961 the first person to spend over 24 hours in space German Titov Vostok 2
1963 the first woman in space Valentina Tereshkova Vostok 6
1965 the first person to walk in space Aleksey Leonov Voskhod 2
1987 the first cosmonauts to spend over one year in space Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov on board the space station Mir