Russia's third man-in-space program, it still continues more than 30 years after its inception
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Jeopary Questions page 1367 - PAINT IT "BLACK" - TriviaBistro.com  "Z" END: Russia's third man-in-space program, it still continues more than 30 years after its inception  CLUB ME!: Bruce Springsteen might feel a little "horse"...
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Soviet space program - Wikipedia  The Soviet space program comprised the rocketry and space exploration programs conducted by the former Soviet Union (USSR) from the 1930s until its dissolution in 1991. Over its sixty-year history, this primarily classified military program was ... Russia created the Russian Aviation and Space Agency, now known as the...
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Celebrating 30 Years of the Space Shuttle Program | NASA  For an entire generation, the Space Shuttle program defined NASA. ... to everything accomplished during the Shuttle program's 30 years of operation. ..... In a period of a little more than sixty years since the first flight of the Wright Brothers, man's ... a more essential and more meaningful part of the program from its inception.
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Ride and Tereshkova: Changing the Course of Human Space ...  Jun 14, 2013 ... This week marks the anniversary of the flights of Sally Ride 30 years ago ... Third Rock Radio ... For its part, the Soviet Union decided to send a woman into space in ... Ride continued her career with NASA after her historic flight, flying on .... 1949, Simpson spent more than 30 years of her career at Goddard.
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History of GLONASS - Wikipedia  The satellite navigation system GLONASS was conceived in the late 1960s, and formal ... In the following years, the system fell into disrepair due to the economic crisis in ... The Russian Federation took over control of the constellation and continued its ... the space program's funding was cut by 80% and Russia consequently...
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Steve Korver  The Road to Gagarin  For more recent writings about Yuri Gagarin go HERE.] We first came to wintry Moscow in 2001 to put our Western fingers on the pulse of Russian Cosmonautics. ... the Mir Space Station, the last vestige of a purely Soviet/Russian manned space .... visit his recreated office at Star City's cosmonaut training centre to 'meditate'...
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The Soviet/Russian Manned Space Program The Soviet/Russian T ...  that the Soviets put a man in space first, and that first flight was longer than either of the first two ... space program, at the direction of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. ... Voskhod Project (which means dawn or sunrise) came after the Vostok Project. ... design bureau began work on the so-called N-1 rocket in 1962.
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USSR - Voskhod Programme - Zarya.info  The Voskhod Programme. ... Voskhod - Multi-person Crews for the First Time ... Further Voskhod missions were planned for 1966 and beyond, but they were cancelled in ... 1960 Mar 1, The Soviet Union first group of 20 space flight trainees reports to the ... 1965 Feb 22, A test of Cosmos 57 inflatable airlock is successful.
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Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space | The Greatest Moments in Flight  Jul 24, 2012 ... On 12 April 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first ... he launched into orbit on the Vostok 3KA-3 spacecraft (Vostok 1). ... Only a few years later, he submitted his request to be considered as a cosmonaut.
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Zvezda service module (SM) - RussianSpaceWeb.com  Jan 21, 2011 ... The most significant Russian contribution in the space station ... with Mission Control Centers in Moscow and in Houston. The Service Module will be launched on a Russian Proton booster from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. ... launch of the station's first element -- the FGB control module -- from...
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On the Anniversary of Sputnik, Here's What the Probe Actually ...  Oct 4, 2015 ... After all, Sputnik is often remembered as a powerful historical shock wavean event, ... In one fell swoop, the Soviet space program inaugurated most of the ... would be noticed by its onboard barometer, and transmitted back to Earth. ... On January 4, 1958, the spacecraft burned up in the atmosphere after...
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Baikonur Cosmodrome - Wikipedia  Baikonur Cosmodrome is a Russian spaceport. This is the earth's first and largest operational space launch facility. ... It was actually founded on 2 June 1955, originally a test center for the world's first intercontinental ballistic ... 14 cosmonauts of 13 other nations, such as Czechoslovakia, East Germany, India and France,...
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Yuri Gagarin made history on April 12, 1961, when he became the ...  Apr 4, 2016 ... Join the World Space Party on April 12. It celebrates the ... Making the cut. More than 200 Russian Air Force fighter pilots were considered.
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Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova; 1st Woman in Space 50 Years Ago!  Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman launched to space 50 years ... The then 26 year old Tereshkova blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome ... 1963 blastoff, according to Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency. ... And don't forget to Send Your Name to Mars aboard NASA's MAVEN...
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Luna 3 - Wikipedia  Luna 3, or E-2A No.1 was a Soviet spacecraft launched in 1959 as part of the Luna programme. It was the first-ever mission to photograph the far side of the Moon. ... Another possibility was that it might have survived in orbit until 1962 or later. ... to obtain photographs of the lunar surface as the spacecraft flew by the Moon.
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EVA at 50: Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov took first spacewalk 50 years ...  Mar 18, 2015 ... It lasted just 12 minutes and 9 seconds, but the first spacewalk  50 years ago ... spacewalk by Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov on March 18, 1965. ... attached to his Voskhod 2 spacecraft by an 18-foot-long umbilical cable. ... Early in the EVA, he mounted a 16mm movie camera on the airlock to film his...
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Mir - Wikipedia  Mir was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, run by the Soviet .... Funding resumed in early 1984 when Valentin Glushko was ordered by the Central Committee's Secretary for Space and Defence ... The orbital assembly of Mir began on February 19, 1986 with the launch of the Proton-K rocket.
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Soviet probe crashes into Venus - Mar 01, 1966 - HISTORY.com  Venera 3, a Soviet probe launched from Kazakhstan on November 15, 1965, collides with ... atmosphere, it was the first unmanned spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet. ... Then, in 1970, Venera 7 became the first spacecraft created by humans to ... What Really Happened to Yuri Gagarin, the First Man in Space?
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In the Shadow of the Moon_ a Challenging Journey to Nquility, 1965 ...  We were not terribly impressed by anyone else, but somehow or other they ... In four short years they had launched the first human, Yuri Gagarin, followed by ... A full four years before the first flight of the three-man Apollo spacecraft, which I would fly, ... The space race seems a long time ago, now that we have Russians and...
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Cosmonaut Catches Up To Russian Revolution - tribunedigital ...  Sergei Krikalev has had a rough patch of luck in the last 10 months. ... March 26, 1992|By Vincent J. Schodolski, Chicago Tribune. ... So is nearly having a space station sold to the highest bidder while he still was using it. ... almost a year ago, Krikalev was at home in a city called Leningrad. ... Space crew set to return home
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Soyuz docks 50 years after Gagarin's voyage | Reuters  Apr 7, 2011 ... A Russian specialist works on the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft, named ... pad in Kazakhstan, where the cosmonaut's flight began on April 12, 1961. ... It was "a giant leap in our evolution as a species", Garan said in his last blog post before lift off. ... Gagarin's steps at every launch, crying: "Poyekhali! - Let's go!".