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The Soviet space program's use of secrecy served as both a tool to prevent the leaking of classified information between countries and also to create a mysterious barrier between the space program and the Soviet populace. The program's nature embodied ambiguous messages concerning its goals, successes, and values.
The Soviet space program's use of secrecy served as both a tool to prevent the leaking of classified information between countries, and to avoid revealing specifics to the Soviet populace in regards to their short and long term goals; the program's nature embodied ambiguous messages concerning its goals, successes, and values.
NASA astronauts who died on duty are memorialized at the Space Mirror Memorial at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Merritt Island, Florida. Cosmonauts who died on duty under the Soviet Union were generally honored by burial at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis in Moscow. No Soviet or Russian cosmonauts have died during spaceflight since 1971.
This is a timeline of achievements in Soviet and United States spaceflight, spanning the Cold War era of nationalistic competition known as the Space Race. This list is limited to first achievements by the USSR and USA which were important during the Space Race in terms of public perception and/or technical innovation.
Short documentary on the origins of NASA. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was created in 1958 from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and other related organizations, as the result of the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s.
Interkosmos (Russian: Интеркосмос) was a Soviet space program, designed to help the Soviet Union's allies with crewed and uncrewed space missions. The program was formed in April 1967 in Moscow. [1] [2] All members of the program from USSR were given the Hero of the Soviet Union medal or the Order of Lenin.
Originating from the Soviet space program founded in the 1950s, Roscosmos emerged following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It initially began as the Russian Space Agency, [ note 2 ] which was established on 25 February 1992 [ 4 ] and restructured in 1999 and 2004 as the Russian Aviation and Space Agency [ note 3 ] and the Federal ...
Crewed space launch EVA Rendezvous and docking Space station Crewed circumlunar flight Crewed Moon landing CNSA (Shenzhou 8 to Tiangong-1) ISRO (SDX01 to SDX02 — as part of SpaDeX) Roscosmos (Soyuz TM-14) (Mir, Aleksandr Volkov and Sergei Krikalev) (Soyuz TM-14 to ISS) Soviet space program (Voskhod 2,