We conquered space with the first Russian sputnik of 1957. Now we have the spaceship. Space travel was once a wild dream. It is slowly coming true today. Much has been done. Yuri Gagarin, the Russian, was the first man to go round the earth in space. He came back safe and sound. Since then, men tied to their ships, have walked in space. Man has landed on the moon.

Soon a space station will be put together in our neighbouring space. Rockets, will fly between the earth and the station. From the space station, we shall go the the Moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter and so on. We shall have limitless freedom and happiness.

All this seems strange now. But the idea of going round the earth in space seemed and equally strange one. Doubtless, space travel will one day be as common as railway travel is today.