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SPACE TRAVEL

 Human beings are very curious about the outer space and celestial bodies.
 They have made many trips into the outer space in 1961.
 Yuri Gagarin from Russia became the first person to travel the space.
 Since then, people from different countries of the world made several trips to the space.
 Rakesh Sharma was the first Indian to travel to the space.
 Astronauts undergo intensive training going to the space, not only do they learn about the
space but they are also trained to how-to live-in conditions such as no air and gravity,
extreme temperature variation and radiation.
 To protect themselves from harsh condition in space, astronauts wear a special suit called
the space suit.

 Space suit creates an Earth like atmosphere for them. It also helps them to float in the
space.

Space journey:

Apollo 11:

 Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon.
 The first steps by humans on another planetary body were taken by Neil Armstrong and
Buzz Aldrin on July 20, 1969.
 The astronauts also returned to Earth the first samples from another planetary body.
 After traveling 240,000 miles in 76 hours, Apollo 11 entered into a lunar orbit on July 19.
 The next day, at 1:46 p.m., the lunar module Eagle, manned by Armstrong and Aldrin,
separated from the command module, where Collins remained.
 They spent 21 hours and 36 minutes on the surface of the moon and collected 21.5 kg of
materials from moon to bring back to the Earth.