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Great Purge - Wikipedia  The Great Purge or the Great Terror (Russian:  ) was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union which occurred from 1936 to 1938.
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During the First U.S. Lunar Landing, the Soviets Crashed Into the ...  Dec 5, 2013 ... While Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were concluding humanity's first Moonwalk, the Soviets made an oopsie: their Luna 15 probe crashed...
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Nonviolence in Czechoslovakia, 1968 - Fragments  In 1968 the Soviet Union and four other Communist countries invaded Czechoslovakia. Rather than defending themselves militarily, the Czechoslovakian...
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Yuri Gagarin! First man in space. Also my name. What a beautiful ...  Yuri Gagarin! First man in space. Also my name. What a beautiful guy. | See more about A Beautiful, Smile and Guys.
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New Soviet man - Wikipedia  The New Soviet man or New Soviet person as postulated by the ideologists of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was an archetype of a person with...
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Human spaceflight - Wikipedia  The USSR launched the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin into a single orbit in Vostok 1 on a Vostok 3KA rocket, on April 12, 1961. The US launched its first astronaut, Alan Shepard on a suborbital flight aboard Freedom 7 on a Mercury-Redstone rocket, on May 5, 1961.
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Space Race - McGill School Of Computer Science  Lunokhod was the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world. ... the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, thus beginning the Space Race. .... The Soviet Union's Venera 7, launched in 1971, became the first craft to land on Venus. .... March 1, 1966, First impact into another planet (Venus), USSR, Venera 3.
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Luna 2 | The Space Race | Pinterest  Bom On September 12, 1959, Soviet spaceprobe Luna 2 was launched. ... of the Moon, and the first man-made object to land on another celestial body. ... Lower section in particular: Mood, lighting, futuristic, use of UI inside of nice ..... Some historians believe Luna 1 - a Soviet spacecraft - was supposed to hit the moon.
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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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First Space Tourist: How a U.S. Millionaire Bought a Ticket to Orbit  Apr 27, 2011 ... Forty years to the month after Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, ... Tito launched in April 2001 aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft ... If the era of commercial spaceflight has a birthday, it's April 28, 2001. ... He would turn 60 later that year, and he felt like his chances of getting into space were...
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Yuri Gagarin - Wikipedia  Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. Gagarin became an international celebrity, and was awarded many medals .... Gagarin became a national hero of the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc, and a...
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Valentina Tereshkova | Soviet cosmonaut | Britannica.com  Soviet cosmonaut, the first woman to travel into space. ... Committee in 1968, and from 1974 to 1991 she served as a member of the Supreme Soviet Presidium.
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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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March 1, 1966: Probe Makes First Contact With Another Planet - Wired  Mar 1, 2010 ... 1966: The Soviet probe Venera 3 successfully lands on the surface of Venus. ... The probe landed on Venus on March 1, becoming the first Earthly craft to touch alien terrain. ... Venera 7 landed mostly intact and became the first probe to transmit data ... 20th century  Soviet Union  Space Exploration  venus.
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NASA - Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space  Apr 13, 2011 ... Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space on April 12, 1961 ... and Soviet spacecraft and to open the way for future joint manned flights.
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NASA - Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space  Apr 13, 2011 ... April 12, 1961: Russian Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space. ... in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft.
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Space Race - Wikipedia  ... landing Neil Armstrong (pictured) and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, July 1969. Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford and cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov shake hands in space to ease cold war tensions. The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet .... These tests led to the first rocket to take photos from outer space, and the first...
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SOVIET MANNED SPACE PROGRAM MEDALS  Here is a typically large heavy Soviet bronze medal issued to celebrate Yuri ... An American "coin of the month" issue for Yuri Gagarin's first man in space. ... "The First Man in Space 40th Anniversary Medal is minted from the metal of a Russian ... It was issued April 12, 2001, the exact 40th Anniversary of his flight aboard...
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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 ... fly in space, when she launched aboard the Vostok-6 capsule on June 16, 1963. ... two days earlier on June 14 with fellow Soviet cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky. ... So she had been selected as a member of the cosmonaut corps just a year...
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Yuri Gagarin - Wikipedia  Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. .... Gagarin's informal poyekhali! became a historical phrase in the Eastern Bloc, used to refer to the .... He said "let's go!
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The First Satellites  May 19, 1997 ... On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1. Its official Russian name was Iskustvennyi Sputnik Zemli, or "Fellow Traveler of the...