Meet The Soviet Space Probe That Paved The Way For Artemis II

Luna-10 launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on March 31, 1966, ripping a noisy, smoke-trailed path through the wide steppe sky ...
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The Soviet space program was crumbling and its cosmonauts were still orbiting Earth

While the Soviet Union collapsed beneath them, two cosmonauts trapped in orbit watched their country dissolve through radio ...
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Lesson Plan: History of the American Space Program

This lesson details how NASA got from Alan Shepard rocketing into low orbit in 1961 to Neil Armstrong taking "one small step" on the lunar surface in 1969 and today's ...
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The classified survival weapon hidden inside every Soviet space capsule

After two cosmonauts crash-landed in a wolf-stalked Siberian forest, the Soviet space program built a weapon they still refuse to officially acknowledge. For decades, it flew on every mission, trained ...
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OTD In Space - January 20: 1st Progress Cargo Delivery Mission Launched

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On January 20, 1978, the Soviet space program launched the first ever Progress cargo ship on a mission to delivery supplies to the ...
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Voices of the Soviet space program : cosmonauts, soldiers, and engineers who took the USSR into space / [edited by] Slava Gerovitch

Introduction: Multiple perspectives on Soviet space history -- Commanding officer Abram Krayzman -- Construction engineer Sergey Safro -- Engine designer Anatoliy Daron -- Guidance engineer Sergei ...
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Cold War space sleuths : the untold secrets of the Soviet space program / Dominic Phelan (editor)

Space sleuths and their 'scoops' / by Dominic Phelan -- Hidden in plain view / by Brian Haryey -- The satellite trackers / by Sven Grahn -- Cosmonauts who weren't there / by James Oberg -- The view ...