The art of space mission patches is now more than six decades old, dating to the Vostok 6 mission in 1963 that carried Soviet ...

🚀🌍 Ever wondered why Soviet cosmonauts carried shotguns into space? The TPP-82 pistol was designed for survival, not just in space—but for the dangerous wildlife of Siberia!

It’s one American textbooks only mention briefly in favor of a famous landing that took place eight years later, but history nonetheless. That day, Soviet pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the ...

This experience became a major factor in Valentina’s later recruitment to the Soviet space program. On 12th April 1961, the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. Such was the ...

Soviets Test Components for Apollo-Soyuz Docking Mission On 2 December 1972, the Soviet Union launched Soyuz-16, a mission to test the docking equipment and procedures for the Apollo-Soyuz Mission.

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On April 3, 1984, he ascended to space alongside two Soviet cosmonauts, Yuri Malyshev and Gennady Strekalov. During his mission, Sharma conducted experiments in space science, captured ...

Visiting crews often included cosmonaut-researchers from Soviet bloc countries or countries sympathetic to the Soviet Union. Vladimir Remck of Czechoslovakia, the first space traveler not from the ...

Two Russian cosmonauts will exit the International Space Station on Thursday to conduct an hours-long spacewalk outside the outpost. Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, both cosmonauts with the ...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn in West Germany following his deportation from the Soviet Union in February 1974 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons By 1973, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was already “Russia ...