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SOVIET/RUSSIAN MANNED SPACEFLIGHT
(see also Unmanned Spaceflight)
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SOVIET/RUSSIAN MANNED SPACE FLIGHT (see also Apollo Soyuz Test Project)
Challenge To Apollo: The Soviet Union and The Space Race, 1945-1974
NASA Factsheet International Space Station: Russian Space Stations (IS-1997-06-004JSC)
Thirty Years Together: A Chronology of U.S.-Soviet Space Cooperation
The Soviet Space Program, National Intelligence Estimate 11-1-62, December 1962
The Soviet Space Program, National Intelligence Estimate 11-1-67, 2 March 1967
Aims and Costs of the Soviet Space Station Program, Intelligence Report, January 1970
Soviet Options for a Manned Mars Landing Mission, intelligence assessment, December 1989
Soviet space stations as analogs
Russian Federal Space Agency Progress M-50 Brochure
The Soviet Challenge in Space 1966
A Comparative Study of Soviet Versus Western Helicopters, Part 1: General Comparison of Designs
INFLATABLE STRUCTURES IN SPACE
RED-STAR PATROL INVESTIGATES THE COSMOS. A NEW AND OUTSTANDING EXPERIMENT
From outer space by parachute by Valentina Nikolayeva-Tereshkova
The First Flight of a Man into Cosmic Space
A preliminary study of the Soviet civil space program. Volume 1: Organization and Operations
Radiotelephone Communication Between Manned Spacecraft of the Soyuz Type
Description of the Conceptual Arrangement for the Rendezvous and Docking of Soyuz Type Spacecraft
ASTRONAUTICS INFORMATION- FIFTH SOVIET SPACESHIP-SATELLITE, SOVIET NEWS COVERAGE, MARCH 26-28, 1961
ASTRONAUTICS INFORMATION- FOURTH SOVIET SPACESHIP-SATELLITE
Brief description of docking device of Soyuz-type spacecraft (with internal passageway)
Press conference on the flight of spaceships SOYUZ-4 and SOYUZ-5
NEWThe Soyuz-6, Soyuz-7, and Soyuz-8 mission
MIR
Mir Hardware Heritage (Alternate Source)
Mir Phase 1 Program Joint Report Alternate Source
Shuttle-Mir: The United States and Russia Share History's Highest Stage
Technical assessment of Mir-1 life support hardware for the international space station
Quick look report of acceleration measurements on Mir Space Station during Mir-16
Further analysis of the microgravity environment on Mir Space Station during Mir-16
MISC.
NEWOn the history of the stratospheric rocket sonde in the USSR, 1933 - 1946
NEW On the history of the development of solid-propellant rockets in the Soviet Union
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Last Updated 02/03/2008
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