- October
- the tenth month
- Soviet
- of the former USSR
- union
- a group joined together
- send
- to make something go to someone
- small
- little; not big
- metal
- a hard material such as iron
- ball
- a round thing for games
- space
- the area beyond the Earth
- be
- is / am / are / was
- call
- to phone someone
- not
- makes a sentence negative
- much
- a lot
- big
- large
- beach
- sand next to the sea
- do
- to perform; helps make questions and negatives
- little
- small; young
- simple
- easy; plain
- beep
- a short high sound
- back
- get back = have again
- Earth
- our planet
- even
- used to show something is surprising
- so
- very; for that reason
- people
- more than one person
- world
- the Earth and everyone on it
- listen
- to pay attention to sound
- sound
- something you hear
- radio
- a device that receives sound broadcasts
- American
- a person from the USA
- shock
- to surprise very badly
- have
- to own; helper verb (has tasted)
- believe
- to think something is true
- lead
- to be first
- science
- the study of nature
- race
- a contest of speed
- begin
- to start
- country
- a nation, like Spain or Japan
- spend
- to use money or time
- enormous
- very large
- sum
- an amount of money
- burn
- to be destroyed by fire
- up
- toward a higher place
- only
- no more than; just
- month
- about four weeks
- orbit
- the path around a planet
- year
- twelve months
- later
- after some time
- astronaut
- a person who travels in space
- walk
- to go on foot; to take a dog out
- Moon
- the object that goes around the Earth