can you give me at least 3 USSR space mission?
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First Satellites in orbit.\nFirst Man in orbit.\nFirst woman in orbit.\nFirst probes to Mars (many missions, all unsuccesfull).\nFirst probes to Venus (only pictures of Venus surface).\nThe Mir space station.\nThe first docking of USSR & American modules in space.\nMoon Satelites & probes.\nMany flights to the International Space Station including something like 5 of the last 6 crew transfers, and 12 or more unmaned supply vehicles.\nHundereds of satelite launches.\n\nSo much more...
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A russian dog called Laika.\n\nThe dog Laika, the first living creature to orbit the Earth, did not live nearly as long as Soviet officials led the world to believe. \nThe animal, launched on a one-way trip on board Sputnik 2 in November 1957, was said to have died painlessly in orbit about a week after blast-off. \n\nNow, it has been revealed she died from overheating and panic just a few hours after the mission started. \n\nThe new evidence was presented at the recent World Space Congress in Houston, Texas, US, by Dimitri Malashenkov of the Institute for Biological Problems in Moscow. \n\nNoted space historian Sven Grahn told BBC News Online that the new information was surprising and significant as it ended more than 40 years of speculation about Laika's fate. \n\nSpace pioneer \n\nLaika's mission on board Sputnik 2 stunned the world. Sputnik 1, the world's first satellite, had been launched less than one month before. \n\n \nLaika had been a stray\n \nIt was a metal sphere weighing about 18 kg (40 lbs) and was far heavier than anything the United States was contemplating launching. \n\nAn astonished world witnessed the launch of Sputnik 2 weighing 113 kg (250 lbs) and carrying the first living thing to go into orbit - the dog Laika. \n\nThe animal had been a stray wandering the streets of Moscow when she was captured and prepared for a space mission. \n\nShortly after launch the Soviets said that Laika was not destined to return alive and would die in space. The statement caused outrage to many observers. \n\nRacing pulse \n\nDr Malashenkov has now revealed several new details about Laika's mission, such as her food being in jelly form and that she was chained to prevent her turning around. \n\nThere was a carbon dioxide absorbing device in the cabin to prevent the accumulation of this toxic gas, as well as an oxygen generator. \n\nA fan was automatically activated to keep the dog cool when the capsule's temperature exceeded 15 deg Celsius. \n\nAccording to Dr Malashenkov, a great deal of work had to be done to adapt a group of dogs to the conditions in the tight cabin of Sputnik 2. They were kept in gradually smaller cages for periods up to 15-20 days. \n\nThree dogs were trained for the Sputnik 2 flight: Albina, Laika and Mushka. Albina was the first "backup", having flown twice on a high-altitude rocket. Mushka was used to test instrumentation and life support. \n\nDeath in space \n\nMedical sensors placed on Laika indicated that during launch her pulse rate went up by a factor of three above its resting level. \n\nAt the start of weightlessness, her pulse rate decreased. It took three times longer than after a centrifuge ride on the ground to return Laika's heartbeat to pre-launch values, an indication of the stress she was suffering. \n\nDr Malashenkov also revealed how Laika died. Telemetry from the Sputnik 2 capsule showed that the temperature and humidity increased after the start of the mission. \n\nAfter five to seven hours into the flight, no lifesigns were being received from Laika. By the fourth orbit it was apparent that Laika had died from overheating and stress. \n\nPreviously, it has been thought that Laika survived at least four days in space and perhaps even a week when Sputnik's transmitters failed. \n\nDespite surviving for just a few hours, Laika's place in space history is assured and the information she provided proved that a living organism could tolerate a long time in weightlessness and paved the way for humans in space. \n\nLaika's "coffin" circled the Earth 2,570 times and burned up in the Earth's atmosphere on 4 April 1958.
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I am a member of the Jules Verne Forum based in Israel. If you tell me what the questions are, I will pass them on to the forum (which gets contributions from translators, professors and NASA scientists)
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Thousands. There have been about 4000 launches (some with multiple payloads) and my guess is that several hundred of the satellites involved are still active. Nine individual countries have launched satellites (USA, Russia, Japan, China, France, India, Israel, Australia, UK) as well as international consortia (ESA, the European Space Agency, being the most important of those). A large number of countries have enough money and could easily acquire the technology to launch satellites, but choose for economy and convenience to either have another country launch their payloads or to participate in the space projects of other nations.
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JFK. YOu should hear his inpirring speeches about the US wanting to reach the moon, to get ahead of USSR in Space reseach and Rocket Science.
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Have you checked Space.com?
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Try these links:\n\nhttp://www.solarviews.com/eng/history.htm\nhttp://www.history.com/minisites/space/\n\nOr this search link:\n\nhttp://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oGkmrH4VhFwlEBFLxXNyoA?p=space+exploration+history&ei=UTF-8&fr=ks-ques&x=wrt\n\nfor more sites to visit.\n\nGood luck!
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Try this:\nhttp://www.braeunig.us/space/
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There were 6 apollo missions that went to the moon, apollo 11 thru 17 with apollo 13 being the one Tom Hanks did the movie about where they had problems and were lucky just to get home again. In each mission there were three spacemen, one poor guy just went to fly the rocket, the other two were lucky enough to go all the way to the surface of the moon. Each mission landed in different locations and in total there were 12 men who have been there and back - only nine of them are still alive today. A good book called Moondust tells you everything about the apollo missions.
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Hard to believe isn't it?  It's been all downhill since then.  Both the Russian and French space programs seem to be more active and appear to be actually making money, whereas NASA spends billions of $$ and to me at least, has little to show for it.
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Ok, if you really want to know the history of the Soviet Union, there are a lot of websites out there that can help you out.  \n\nResearch it and let us know what you found out.
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I would say the race began in earnest in 1957, when the Russians launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite to orbit the earth.  Some say it began in 1945 when Russia and the US competed to acquire German rocket scientists and engineers after WWII.
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7 satelites at least.\nFiring nuke? not necessary..the nukes are carried by vehicle.... totaly undetectable....and so much more cheaper...
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russi satellite called SPUTNIK...
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http://www.nasa.com\nsee this
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http://images.google.com/images?q=astronauts&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images\nhttp://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=milky+way&btnG=Search\nhttp://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=space&btnG=Search\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Space+exploration&btnG=Google+Search
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NASA is well explain, all that you want. Check this site.\n\nhttp://spaceflight.nasa.gov/living/index.html