Space Travel

The latter haif of this century has seen the development of space flight when the first manned flight by Major Yuri Gagurin successfully orbited the earth in April 1961 . In 1965 Col. Lesnov demonstrated the first 'walk' in space outside his spacecraft. The most astonishing feature was in 1969 when Neel Armstrong first stepped on the moon. In 1967 two space labs Soyuz and Salyut successfully docked in space. Thus the space programme continue


Space travel is no longer viewed with wonder. Its possibility is not beyond comprehension of the layman. But there are some problems in space travel. The main difficulty is to remain normal in weightlessness. The traveller has to undergo hard training to learn to live with zore weight. The next problem is te tremendous cost of space travel. The cost of the moon mission to the United States was so appalling that a second mission has so far not been at tampted. Therefore space travcelis restricted to experiments, research and explorations purposes. How safe is space travel is the next problem. Space travel therefore is not within future. Furthermore unlike travel on earth space travel does not hold any any worthy purpose for the common man.
















 

 


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