Chris Hadfield and the International Space Station

Chris Hadfield and the International Space Station — page 9
First human in space Yuri Gagarin Russia April 1961 First American in space Alan Shepard May 1961 First woman in space Valentina Tereshkova Russia June 1963 First human on the Moon Neil Armstrong United States July 1969 IN THE CLASSROOM No one walks into NASA and expects to go straight into space First there are many years of hard training in order to learn how to operate the most complicated machines ever built Then there is the simple fact that many astronauts never go into space at all Opportunities are very limited