Soyuz 1 Space disaster that put back Soviet lunar program 18 months. The Chinese Shenzhou manned spacecraft resembled the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, but. The BC-2720 was the member of the SLS family selected to boost the Air Force. SLS BC-2720 American orbital launch vehicle. WS-117 Weapons System 117 was develped from 1955 as the first US military space system. The Wrong Stuff - A Catalogue of Launch Vehicle Failures The hard road to space. Yantar Series of Russian surveillance satellites, based on the Yantar bus developed by Kozlov in Samara in the 1970's. Soyuz: Was the Design Stolen? There was something awfully familiar looking about the Soyuz spacecraft, the most successful in history. Remaining astronaut barely survived nose-first reentry of Soyuz. Soyuz 5 Two crew transferred to and returned in Soyuz 4. Is what might have been better than what was? Would America have beaten the Russians into space or even into orbit? Would the Russians have beat America to the moon? Big Gemini American manned spacecraft. Shuguang-1 (Dawn-1) was China's first manned spacecraft design. Phantom Cosmonaut Over the years the Western press named a number of cosmonauts that were never acknowledged by the Soviet Union. The Hard Road to Space One third of manned spaceflights suffer major problems that threaten completion of the mission and the life of.
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