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99. Read the text and translate it.
TO THE STARS
For ages mankind has dreamt of travelling in space. In 1865 Jules Verne published his famous novel "From the Earth to the Moon". It tells us how the heroes of the novel overcome the Earth's gravity due to great speed.
In his book "The First Man on the Moon" Herbert Wells invented an antigravity substance to take his men to the Moon. The spaceship, covered with this material, was able to travel in space.
Those were, however, only stories invented by fiction writers, and they seemed fantastic dreams to most people.
But many scientists were working on the problems of interplanetary travelling. Among them there were many our fellow countrymen: Olexander Zasiadko (1779—1834); Kostiantyn Kostiantynov (born in 1817 or 1818); Myko-la Kybalchych, who died at the age of 28; Kostiantyn Tsiolkovskyi who came from the glorious Cossack family of Nalyvaiko; Yurii Kondratyuk, who made calculations for the manned flight to the Moon.
On October 4, 1957 the first world's satellite was launched into space. On April 12, 1961 the spaceship with Yurii Gagarin on board, was launched into space, and the general designer of the spaceship was our fellow countryman Serhii Koroliov. He worked together with our compatriots Mykhailo Yangel, Volodymyr Chelomii, Valentyn Hlushko and others.
In 1969 Americans sent their astronauts-to the Moon. They used the calculations of Yurii Kondratyuk.
The first cosmonaut of the independent Ukraine who was launched into space on board the American spaceship in 1997 was Leonid Kadenyuk.
100. Answer the questions.
1. What novels and stories about travelling to other planets do you know?
2. What our compatriots, who took part in elaborating the problems of interplanetary travelling, do you know?
3. When was the first manned satellite launched?
4. Who was the first cosmonaut?
5. When did Americans send their astronauts to the Moon?
6. What was Yurii Kondratyuk famous for?
7. Who is the first cosmonaut of the independent Ukraine?
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