Work in pairs. Find information about the International Space Station and write a short text about it. Use the questions below to help you.
1 When was it built? Who was it built by?
2 Who has it been visited by? Who is living there at the moment?
3 What is life like on the space station? What difficulties do you think the astronauts have?

the baikonur cosmidrome was built in the ___. it was the first cosmodrome in the world, and it is still the largest and the busiest in the desert steppe in Kazakhstan, about ___ km east of the aral sea.
A lot of space missions are launched from the cosmodrome every year. Both Sputnik ___ (the earth's first artificial satellite) and Vostok 1 (the first spacecraft with a man on board) were launched from Gagarin's Start at Baikonur. The first Kazakh astronaut, Toktar Aubakirov, flew from Gagarin's Start in 1991. He was a member of the ___ expedition to the Mir space station. Another Kazakh astronaut, Talgat Musabayev, flew three missions - in 1994, 1998 and ___. In 2007, he became the head of the Kazakh space agency kazcosmos.
Gagarin's Start, which is named after Yuri Gagarin, is also the launch site for International Space Station (ISS) missions. In ___ the astronaut Aidyn Aimbetov was selected to fly on the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft to the ISS. This was the ___ launch from gagarin's Start. The launch was in 2015, but Aimbetov's journey to space began more than twelve years earlier. In ___ he was sent to study in Star City in Russia. This is where astronauts are trained. The training isn't easy. 'Flying into space is not like buying a theatre ticket,' Aimbetov said. After ___ years of training, he returned to Kazakhstan in 2009 to work for KazCosmos. He always wanted to travel into space under the Kazakh flag, and his dream finaly came true on ___ September 2015​

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