Race Into Space: The Soviet Space Programme

Alexei Leonov American Andrian Nikolayev announced Apollo April astronauts atmosphere backup Baikonour began Beregovoi cabin cameras capsule carried cosmonauts Cosmos craft crew December Docked with Salyut Earth orbit engine fired flew flight flown fuel Gemini Georgi Grechko ground control Intercosmos July June Kapustin Yar Khrushchev Komarov Korolov Kovalyonok landing later launch Luna 16 lunar orbit Lunokhod Lyakhov manoeuvres Mars military minutes mission module Moon race Moscow NASA Nikolayev October orbital stations parachute payload pilot planet planned Plesetsk probe Proton radio rendezvous rocket Romanenko Russians Ryumin Salyut satellites scientists Shatalov shuttle soft-landing Soviet space programme Soviet Weekly Soyuz Soyuz 11 Soyuz 20 Soyuz 33 Soyuz 9 space station spacecraft Spaceflight spaceship spacewalk Sputnik stage surface Titov tonnes took unmanned USSR Valentin Valeri Valeri Kubasov Venera Venus Vladimir Voskhod Vostok Yeliseyev Yuri Gagarin Yuri Romanenko Zond