The art of space mission patches is now more than six decades old, dating to the Vostok 6 mission in 1963 that carried Soviet ...
The Soviet Union was keenly interested in Piccard’s flight, and the Soviet Air Force set about to build a research vessel, CCCP-1 (in English, USSR-1), that flew in 1933. The envelope was a ...
In the messy post-World War II days, when the Soviet Union was triumphant ... in their imposing red sweaters with “CCCP” emblazoned on the front, who could skate like the wind, win faceoffs ...