영어1 YBM 박준언 5과 빈칸

____ 1 Back to Space!

After blasting off from Earth, we took about 27 hours to reach the International Space Station, ____ we docked successfully.

This is my third journey ____ space.

After ten years, I’m back on this station, the largest artificial space habitat in ____ 400 kilometers away from Earth!

Day 5 The World with No ____

Now I’m getting better at remembering where I am when I ____ wake up, but I’m still often confused about how my body is positioned.

In the dark and without ____, my inner ear just takes a random guess as to my position, and sometimes I wake up convinced that I’m upside down.

Of course, it’s actually my brain readjusting to an environment where height and ____ lose their meaning.

I ____ use any wall equally as if each were a floor.

Everything has ____ weight.

This enables me not ____ to fly but also to lift huge objects with one finger as if I were a superhero.

Unfortunately, zero gravity also makes astronauts lose muscle and bone ____ really fast.

That’s why I exercise for ____ minutes a day as my colleagues do.

Day 25 ____ the Day

The station orbits Earth once every 90 minutes, and the ____ rises and sets every 45 minutes.

However, our schedules are set to Greenwich Mean ____ on Earth.

My day starts around ____ a.m. in my personal space, which is about the size of a phone booth.

Still in my sleeping bag, I click through ____ emails and brush my teeth.

I swallow the toothpaste with a sip of water from a ____ with a straw.

There’s no good way to spit in ____ because everything floats.

Then, I look ____ the daily schedule sent by the flight control team on Earth.

____ a meeting with the Earth team at 7:30, I start work.

Every ____ of an astronaut’s day is planned by the Earth team.

My ____ comprises lots of scientific experiments and maintenance of the station.

My favorite experiment is growing basil from ____ as I film its growth every day.

____ green plants in space is a delight!

Today’s mission ____ a spacewalk, one of the riskiest tasks on the ISS.

We had to install the bases for ____ newly developed solar batteries on the outside of the station.

Scott, my colleague, and I went to an airlock, a room connected to the outside of the station, put on our spacesuits, and floated gently ____ space.

The large blue dome of ____ hovered overhead, looking like it was ready to come crashing down upon us.

Forcing ____ to focus on the task, I secured the hook of my safety cable to a ring just outside the airlock.

We moved ____ the handrail to the edge of the station.

The dark void in ____ of us seemed endless.

Despite the safety cable, ____ rose in me.

I thought, “If my hand misses the ____, I will fall into the void.”

The ____ seemed to take forever, but I finally managed to install the battery bases.

When I turned my head, the bright blue Earth was ____ there.

In the middle of darkness, its beauty was beyond ____.

Day 99 One ____ Left

I’ll return to ____ tomorrow.

If getting up into space is alarming and uncomfortable, coming back ____ is one of the most dangerous and physically harsh things an astronaut ever does.

Back on Earth, ____ miss lots of things here.

I’ll ____ the satisfaction of successfully finishing an experiment or a challenging task like a spacewalk.

____ especially miss my basil plants, whose leaves have become a dense forest!

All the same, I’ll never forget how lucky we are to have that wonderful blue ____ as our home.

Mother Earth didn’t exactly ____ us back with open arms.

Earth’s atmosphere is resistant to objects entering ____ space.

Any object will create enough friction ____ to burn up from the heat.

This protects the planet ____ the orbital debris that would otherwise rain down on it.

But it also meant we had to survive a fall through the atmosphere that created temperatures up to 1650 degrees ____.

After pushing our spaceship away from the station, we eased our ____ into the upper layers of the atmosphere to start our descent.

We ____ gravity begin to return.

My watch felt a lot heavier on my ____, and breathing got harder.

The capsule heated up, and orange and ____ flaming pieces flew by the window, which was scorched black.

We were falling faster ____ the speed of sound.

Once we got inside the atmosphere about eight kilometers above the planet, a parachute caught us with a sudden halt and dragged and swung our capsule wildly through the ____ until we hit the ground.

It’s hard to describe how heavy ____ felt in those first few minutes after landing.

My ____ felt terribly heavy, and so did my legs.

Getting used to gravity, which I ____ in space, will take quite a long time.

The important thing is I’m ____.

I ____ smell the grass and feel the wind and the rain!

I’ll remember how magical these things are for the ____ of my life.