全国高一英语 任务型阅读训练一For centuries people dreamed of going into space．This dream began to seem possible whenhigh-flying rockets were built in the early 1900s.In 1903 a Russian teacher named Konstantin Tsiolkovsky figured out how to use rockets for spacetravel．His plan was the first one in rocket science to use correct scientific calculation．About 30years later, a U.S．scientist named Robert Goddard built the first rockets that could reach highaltitudes．During World War II, German scientists built large rockets that could travel very far andcarry dangerous explosives．After the war, scientists from Germany went to the United States and theSoviet Union to help those countries build space rockets.These two countries were soon racing to get to space first ．Each of these countries wanted to provethat it was stronger and more advanced than the other one．Both countries also had powerfulbombs．People in the United States were worried when the Soviets were first to launch a spacesatellite, which was called Sputnik ．The Soviets were also first to send a person into space ．YuryGagarin orbited the earth in the Vostok I spaceship in 1961.The US government set a goal for its space program to be the first country to put a person on theMoon．The U.S．space program built a series of Apollo spaceship．These vehicles were powered byhuge Saturn 5 rockets．In 1969 Apollo II took three men to the moon successfully．Nell Armstrongbecame the first person to walk on the Moon.The Soviets may have lost the race to fly people to the Moon, but they built the first space station in1971．The United States also built a space station ．The space stations allowed people to live andwork in space．Then the Soviet Union a...
