USSR probes space.

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Published 1968 by Novosti Press Agency in [Moscow] .
Written in English

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Edition Notes

Translation of: Kosmichyeskiye isslyedovaniya.

Other titles	Kosmichyeskiye isslyedovaniya.
The Physical Object
Pagination	[87]p. :
Number of Pages	87
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL21002600M

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The book also includes sections on the Apollo Space Program, the USSR-USA space race and a cross-referenced chronological index of all the probes. Engaging and accessible, Space Probes is a comprehensive and expertly researched encyclopedia of humanity's space explorations, an adventure that has not finished astonishing us. Soviet and Russian Space History - Book Summaries. Courtesy of a Ukrainian grad student, I have a copy of the two-volume Bitva za Zvezdy - Kosmicheskoe Protivostoyanie, or "Battle for the Stars - Standoff in Space (I'd go with the simpler "Space Race" as a dynamic equivalent).This is a history by Anton Pervushin, which emphasizes the roads not taken.

  There was little scientific gain in sending people to the Moon. USSR had probes of lunar soil and could make many experiments using machines. As USSR already had numerous space related achievements, at that time the decision was made that there was no need to . The Soviet space program comprised the rocketry and space exploration programs conducted by the former Soviet Union (USSR) from the s until its dissolution in Over its sixty-year history, this primarily classified military program was responsible for a . Kuldip Singh Dhir Space means much more than exciting news today. Multiple-use satellites and space probes are a common phenomena. Space race of the s Author: Tribune India.

January 2l, l marked the first time that signals from the Soviet Venera-Halley (VEGA) space probes were received at NASA tracking station. As part of an international tracking network organized by the French space agency CNES, the giant meter antenna of NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) located at Goldstone, California, successfully homed in on the faint signals from the two spacecraft. The Soviet space probes opened the race to the Moon, Venus and Mars. The projects of unmanned missions to Mercury and Jupiter were also under consideration in the former USSR. Russian unmanned planetary exploration program in Russian unmanned planetary exploration program in Bykovsky set an endurance record of 5 days in space. Vostok 6 (USSR) Chaika (Seagull) J Tereshkova: This mission marked the first woman in space. Voskhod 1 (USSR) Rubin (Ruby) Octo Komarov Feoktistov Yegorov: The first space crew, with one pilot and two passengers. The capsule was so crowded that the crew did not wear.