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Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin —the first person in outer space. The Soviet space program[ 2 ] (Russian: Космическая программа СССР, romanized:Kosmicheskaya programma SSSR) was the state space program of the Soviet Union, active from 1955 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. [ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ] Contrary to its ...
It was formerly known as the Space Research Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Russian abbr.: ИКИ АН СССР, IKI AN SSSR). It is usually known by the shorter name Space Research Institute and especially by the initialism IKI. The institute is located in Moscow with a staff of 289 scientists. It conducts scientific research in the ...
Mir (Russian: Мир, IPA: [ˈmʲir]; lit. 'peace' or 'world') was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, operated by the Soviet Union and later by the Russian Federation. Mir was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996. It had a greater mass than any previous spacecraft.
Apollo–Soyuz was the first crewed international space mission, carried out jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union in July 1975. Millions of people around the world watched on television as an American Apollo spacecraft docked with a Soviet Soyuz capsule. The project, and its handshake in space, was a symbol of détente between the ...
A second similar mission, Deutschland 2 (Spacelab-D2, DLR-2, NASA designation STS-55), was first planned for 1988, but due to the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, was delayed until 1993. It became the first German human space mission after German reunification. [33] The only Japan mission, Spacelab-J (NASA designation STS-47), took place in 1992.
Soyuz 11 (Russian: Союз 11, lit. 'Union 11') was the only crewed mission to board the world's first space station, Salyut 1. [ a ][ 5 ] The crew, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev, [ 6 ][ 7 ][ 8 ] arrived at the space station on 7 June 1971, and departed on 29 June 1971. The mission ended in disaster when the crew ...
The Russian Space Forces is the military counterpart of the Roscosmos with similar mission objectives as of the United States Space Force. The Russian branch was formed after the merging of the space components of the Russian Air Force and the Aerospace Defense Forces (VKO) in 2015. The Space Forces controls Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome launch ...
Russian space agency Roscosmos said that coolant leaked from an external backup radiator for Russia's new science lab. “The crew and the station aren’t in any danger,” Roscosmos said.