Pioneer 10 left Earth in 1972 and began to cross the ______________ _____________________________
______________ asteroid belt four months later. Some people said it
would be____________________ to find a way through the dust and
______________ millions of rocks that lie beyond the inner planets; but
despite its very_______________________ technology Pioneer made a
___________________ crossing and went on to carry out its first mission: to study Jupiter.
It continued past the_______________________ planets until 1983, crossing the
paths of Saturn, Uranus and Pluto before finally entering the vast
_____________ area outside our solar system. There it will maintain
course on its_________________________ journey, passing close to Proxima
Centauri in 70,000 years' time. Eventually,__________________________ believe,
in the safe vacuum of deep space, it may even_____________________________ the
Earth, which in five billion years will______________________________ as the Sun grows
ever bigger and swallows up our tiny planet.
Unit 2.Space Tourism
Basic, outer, unexplored, successful, unknown, impossible, endless, countless, outlive, disappear, scientists.
12. Give missing derivatives (nounsr verbs, adverbs and adjectives) from these words and translate them.
| Verb | Noun | Adjective | Adverb |
| To fly | ------ | ||
| proposal | ------- | ||
| successful | |||
| endlessly |
13. Agree or disagree with the following statements. Give your reasons.
For agreement use: For disagreement use:
That's right. I think that's wrong.
I am with you here. I am not with you here.
I fully agree. I don't really agree.
Definitely. Definitely not.
Exactly. On the contrary.
1. Space tourism was invented many years ago.
2. People have always dreamed of going into space.
3. The primary attraction of space tourism is the unique experience of weightlessness.
4. There are many science fiction stories about space travels.
5. The average family of the early 21st century can enjoy a holiday on the Moon.
6. The first space tourist was Dennis Tito.
7. After the Columbia disaster the Russian Soyuz program was put on hold.
8. The Soyuz rockets are the only vehicles available transport to ISS.
9. The space trip price is $20 million.
10. Suborbital flights will be much cheaper than orbital ones.
11. There also circumlunar trips available to space tourists now.
12. Orbital tourism will soon be superseded by planetary and interstellar tourism.
13. There are lectures on space tourism in many universities around the world.
14. Many companies want to build space hotels.
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