https://padlet.com/18052701/Bookmarks Made with the strength to succeed en-us 2022-03-09 16:56:57 UTC 2025-10-09 12:48:03 UTC hello@padlet.com 18052701 https://padlet.com/18052701/Bookmarks/wish/2086519911 I'm getting ready for my upcoming launch! Training is not easy. It's extremely hard to prepare because anything could go wrong in space and we can't practice everything. It makes me a little scared, but I'm more excited than scared. The other cosmonauts I am flying with are experienced so that makes me feel better. They are Vladimir Komarov and Boris Yegorov.]]> 2022-03-09 17:04:24 UTC https://padlet.com/18052701/Bookmarks/wish/2086519911 18052701 https://padlet.com/18052701/Bookmarks/wish/2088761640 Before I became a cosmonaut, I served as a scout for Russia in WWII. I was only 16 years old when I was captured by the Germans. I was sentenced to death by firing squad. After being shot through the neck, I escaped from a burial trench. After my near death experience, I decided to attend Moscow N.E. Bauman Higher Technical School where I worked as a factory engineer. In 1955 I earned what is equivalent to a Ph.D. nowadays and from then on, worked as an engineer in the Soviet space program where I designed spacecraft and equipment.]]> 2022-03-10 16:57:58 UTC https://padlet.com/18052701/Bookmarks/wish/2088761640 18052701 https://padlet.com/18052701/Bookmarks/wish/2106545550 3...2...1... The spacecraft lifted off the launchpad. I could feel the g's pulling me down and down into my seat. Once we made it into orbit we settled down, had food and looked into to the endless void of space. The specialty of my mission was that I was the first engineer in space, we were the first human spaceflight to carry more than one crewman into orbit, and also the first flight without the use of spacesuits. So our flight was one to be proud of.]]> 2022-03-22 02:19:59 UTC https://padlet.com/18052701/Bookmarks/wish/2106545550