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In the early 1970s, a Soviet defector exposed Soviet achievements as “space bluff,” which hid failures and created illusions about technological capacities. A wealth of previously classified documents ...
Today (April 12) marks the 60th anniversary of the daring launch that sent the first human into space, paving the way for manned space exploration of the cosmos. On April 12, 1961, Russian ...
Yuri Gagarun was the first Russian cosmonaut sent into space, but his 1961 journey wasn't all it seemed, writes John Strausbaugh in "The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned." ...
National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear on May 25, 1961, when American President John F. Kennedy announced that his ...
When the Space Race kicked off in earnest in the 1950s, in some ways it was hard to pin down where sci-fi began and reality ended. As the first artificial satellites began zipping around the Earth,… ...
Sent on their way by an R-7, the Soviet space program’s treacherously temperamental workhorse, Voskhod circled the Earth 16 times and returned home safely, much to the relief of Sergei Korolev ...
In the new edition of a book called "Starman" (Bloomsbury 2011) Jamie Doran and Piers Bizony tell the story of the first space fatality — the tragic death of Russian cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov ...
The historic flight would demonstrate the superiority of the Soviet space program and, by extension, ... And if history books had ceased printing in the 1980s, then sure, ...
Every space book given to me by my mom when I was a kid was about the U.S. space program. The great icons of the Soviet program were Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, Alexei Leonov, the first ...
"First Cosmic Velocity" (G.P. Putnam's Sons), by Zach Powers "First Cosmic Velocity" is a cleverly conceived and beautifully delivered novel that looks at the struggle for space supremacy from the ...