The first astronauts
Since the earliest times, people have looked up at the stars, the moon and the planets. Today people use modern machines1at the sky. This is very different from the situation 2years ago when people could only use their eyes. Perhaps they dreamed of 3 the universe. When did humans first go into space? The story began not so very long ago, 4the first astronauts were not people—they were animals.
Scientists wanted to make travelling to space as 5as possible for humans. So they decided to experiment with animals and test 6in spaceflights. Insects, mice, frogs, dogs and monkeys were some of the animals7first went into space. Many of them 8, but they helped to make space travel safer for humans. For their great service, we 9forget these animals. Albert I was the first monkey to go into space in 1949. Sadly he died10his space ship landed back on Earth.
