On April 19, 1971, the Soviet Union launched the world's first space station, Salyut 1. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series ...
The Soviet Union launched the world's first satellite and sent the first human into space in the 1960s, but Russia's once ...
The most striking feature of the Almaz station was the 23mm Nudelman-Rikhter (NR-23) cannon, a modified aircraft gun adapted for use in the unforgiving vacuum of space. “This battle station is now ...
NASMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full ...
On this day in 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina V. Tereshkova became the first woman to travel in space, having been launched into orbit aboard the spacecraft Vostok 6, which completed 48 orbits in 71 ...
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