--- title: Space: from Sputnik to the Moon — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Space: from Sputnik to the Moon», a lesson of the history course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: After the Second World War the USA and the Soviet Union became rivals in the Cold War, and they raced to be first in space, like two class --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / Space: from Sputnik to the Moon # Space: from Sputnik to the Moon Lesson 35 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/0/) — After the Second World War the USA and the Soviet Union became rivals in the Cold War, and they raced to be first in space, like two classmates each trying to finish the science project first. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/1/) — In 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, a beeping metal ball that was the first artificial satellite, and its rockets were designed by Serhiy Korolev, born in Zhytomyr in Ukraine. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/2/) — In 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, in 1963 Valentina Tereshkova the first woman, and on 20 July 1969 the Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/3/) — Their footprints are still there, because the Moon has no wind or rain to blow them away. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/4/) — Behind every astronaut were thousands of people on Earth, and today the old rivals often work together, with astronauts from many countries living on the International Space Station. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/5/) — After the Second World War the USA and the Soviet Union were rivals in the Cold War and raced to be first in space. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/6/) — In 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, a metal ball that beeped as it circled the Earth. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/7/) — The chief designer of the Soviet rockets was Serhiy Korolev, who was born in Zhytomyr in Ukraine. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/9/) — On 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, orbiting the Earth once in 108 minutes. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/10/) — In 1963 Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/11/) — On 20 July 1969 the American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon in Apollo 11 while Michael Collins circled above. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/12/) — Armstrong said: That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind, and about 600 million people watched on television. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/13/) — The astronauts collected Moon rocks and left a flag and footprints, which are still there because there is no wind on the Moon. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/14/) — Twelve people walked on the Moon between 1969 and 1972. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/15/) — Thousands of people worked on Apollo, including the mathematician Katherine Johnson and the programmer Margaret Hamilton. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/16/) — In 1970 an oxygen tank exploded on Apollo 13 on the way to the Moon, and the crew and mission control worked out how to bring them home safely. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/17/) — Today astronauts from many countries live on the International Space Station, robots explore Mars, and in 1997 Leonid Kadenyuk became the first astronaut of independent Ukraine. - ← previous: [The Second World War](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/) - next →: [Computers and the internet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/) - ↑ back to [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/)