1、Unit 1 Tales of the unexplained,Word power,Who are they? Do you think they are great?,Yan Liwei the first man sent to space by the Chinese space program,Zhai Zhigang the first Chinese citizen to carry out a spacewalk,Do you want to become as great as them when you grow up? Are you interested in maki

2、ng discoveries in space? Who was the first man to travel in space? When did the first man land on the Moon? What do you know about him?,Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (1934 1968) a Soviet pilot,the first human being to travel in space,Neil Alden Armstrong (1930 ) American aviator,the first person to set

3、foot on the Moon,astronaut,spaceship / space shuttle,Key events in the history of space exploration,4 October 1957: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite, igniting the space race.,Key events in the history of space exploration,3 November 1957: The dog Lai

4、ka, the first living creature ever to orbit the earth, is launched aboard Sputnik II.,Key events in the history of space exploration,31 January 1958: The United States launches its own satellite, Explorer I.,Key events in the history of space exploration,12 April 1961: Major Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet c

5、osmonaut, becomes first human in outer space and the first to orbit the Earth.,Key events in the history of space exploration,5 May 1961: Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space, on a suborbital flight lasting just 15 minutes and 28 seconds.,Key events in the history of space exploration,20

6、 February 1962: John Glenn, aboard Friendship 7, becomes the first American to orbit the Earth.,Key events in the history of space exploration,16th June 1963 : Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (Russian) became the first woman to fly in space.,Key events in the history of space exploration,20 July 1

7、969: Neil Amstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the moon.,Key events in the history of space exploration,14 May 1973: Skylab, Americas first experimental space station, is launched. The Soviet Union launched the first space station, the Salyut I, on 19 April 1971.,24 Apri

8、l 1990: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched.,Key events in the history of space exploration,4 July 1997: Pathfinder, an unmanned mission launched on 4 December 1996, lands on Mars.,Key events in the history of space exploration,Read the speech on P 6 and complete the time line of the main events

9、mentioned.,Time,Event,1957,1959,1961,1969,The first man-made satellite went around the Earth.,Spaceships have been sent up into space since 1959.,Yuri Gagarin travelled in space.,Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon.,A spaceship is a vehicle for carrying people through space. A space shuttle is a vehic

10、le that is designed to carry people into space and back to the Earth several times to do experiments.,Read the second part of the scientists speech and think about the questions.,What will happen to the rockets after the shuttle has been sent to space? Where will the astronauts do their research? Why ca