SPACE PROGRAM.PART 2

He was elected deputy of the soviet after serving as deputy training director at the cosmonauts training centre later renamed after him and thereafter to the soviet of nationalities lower and upper chamber of supreme soviet.Vostok 1 was his only space flight and served as back up crew to Soyuz 1 mission.This ended in fatal crash killing his friend and fellow cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov.Due to this fatal crash,he was banned from further space travels with dread he might die from same crash.In February 1968,the ban was lifted to encourage him fly regularly on aircraft.He later died five weeks after the lift when MIG-15 training Jet he piloted crashed together with flight instructor.Soviet pioneered the intercontinental ballistics and R-7 put the first animal a dog Laika in Space travelling on Sputnik 2,it also placed the first woman Valentina Tereshkova in earth orbit on Vostok 6 in 1963.Alexei Leonov on Voskhod 2 became the first man to perform a spacewalk.They recorded few lunar exploration milestones such as