1. V.Gatalska
SPACE
EXPLORATION
1961 …………

2. On April 12, 1961 the Soviet Union put a man into space.
His name was Yuri Gagarin.
In his Vostok 1 spaceship Gagarin made 1 orbit
around the Earth. His flight lasted 108 minutes.
SPACE EXPLORATION

3. On August 6, 1961 the Soviet Union launched Vostok-2 into space.
The cosmonaut’s name was German Titov.
He spent 25 hours in space and made 17 orbits around the Earth.
He was 25 years old, the youngest human who travelled into space.
SPACE EXPLORATION

4. On June 16, 1963 the Soviet Union launched Vostok-6 into space.
The cosmonaut’s name was Valentina Tereshkova.
She spent 3 days in space and made 48 orbits around the Earth.
She was 26 years old, the youngest woman who travelled into space.
SPACE EXPLORATION

5. The First American Astronaut
February 20,
1962
John Glenn became the 3rd man who orbited the Earth and the 5th person in space. It took him 4h55min to make 3 orbits around the Earth.
SPACE EXPLORATION

6. John Glenn on Discovery Space Shuttle
After 36 years John Glenn returned to space on the Space Shuttle on October 29, 1998, becoming, at age 77, the oldest person to go into space. He spent 213 hours in space.
SPACE EXPLORATION
The Presidential Medal of Freedom, May 29, 2012

7. The Longest Human Space Flights
Time in space
Crew
Country
477.7 days
Yuri Polyakov
Russia
379.6 days
Sergei Avdeyev
365.0 days
Vladimir Titov
Musa Manarov
Soviet Union
340.4 days
Mikhail Kornienko
Scott Kelly
The United States
Yuri Polyakov
Sergei Avdeyev
Vladimir Titov
Scott Kelly

8. The Most Time in Space Time in space Astronaut (man) Country 879 days,
5 spaceflights
Gennady Padalka
Russia
803 days,
6 spaceflights
Sergei Krikalev
Sergei Krikalev
Gennady Padalka

9. The Most Time in Space Time in space Astronaut (woman) Country
376 days,
2 spaceflights
Peggy Whitson
The United States
321 days,
5 spaceflights
Sunita Williams
Peggy Whitson
Sunita Williams

10. The Most Space Walks Time in space Astronaut (woman) Country Russia
16 spacewalks for total of
77 hours and
41 minutes
Anatoly Solovyov
Russia
7 spacewalks for a total time of 50 hours and 40 minutes
Sunita Williams
The United States
Anatoly Solovyov
Sunita Williams

11. The Most Space Walks

12. The First Ukrainian in Space
Leonid Kadenyuk flew into space on the STS-87 Columbia mission
in 1997

13. The First Ukrainian in Space
Leonid Kadenyuk was a crew member on the STS-87 Columbia mission from to 5.12,1997