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    Astron was a Soviet space telescope launched on 23 March 1983 at 12:45:06 UTC, using the Proton launcher. Based on the 4MV spacecraft design and operational...
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  • Telescope and LOFAR Astron (comics), a fictional character, a member of the Marvel Comics group The Eternals Astron (spacecraft), Soviet ultraviolet...
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    spaceflight project. Two one-day crewed missions were flown using the Voskhod spacecraft and rocket, one in 1964 and one in 1965, and two dogs flew on a 22-day...
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    made to the docking port of the OPS to accommodate Soyuz spacecraft in addition to TKS spacecraft. The civilian DOS space station cores were designed by...
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    programme initiated by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s. The Soyuz spacecraft was originally part of a Moon landing project intended to put a Soviet...
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  • stray mongrel from the streets of Moscow, she flew aboard the Sputnik 2 spacecraft, launched into low orbit on 3 November 1957. As the technology to de-orbit...
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    pilots; Belyayev was the most experienced with 900 flying hours. The Soviet spacecraft were more automated than the American counterparts, so significant piloting...
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  • Soyuz 7K-L1 (Zond) spacecraft launched with the Proton-K rocket, and a crewed lunar landing using Soyuz 7K-LOK and LK spacecraft launched with the N1...
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    Aviation Equipment. OKB-52, along with designing ICBMs, started to work on spacecraft, and in 1961 began work on a design for a much more powerful ICBM, the...
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    preparations. Gagarin and Titov were selected to train in the flight-ready spacecraft on 7 April. Historian Asif Azam Siddiqi writes of the final selection:...
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    reentry error when the retrorockets failed to shut off when planned, their spacecraft was intentionally destroyed by remote self-destruct to prevent foreign...
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    flying on the Shuttle, and an American astronaut flying aboard a Soyuz spacecraft to engage in long-duration expeditions aboard Mir. The project, sometimes...
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  • other laserdisc games. Astron Belt was ported to the MSX home system in 1984 in Japan. The player controls a lone spacecraft on a mission to singlehandedly...
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    program Lunokhod program Mars program Phobos program Marsnik program Astron (spacecraft) Orion 1 and Orion 2 Space Observatories RELIKT-1 Venera Vega program...
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    use of liquid rocket engines. The outward appearance of Tsiolkovsky's spacecraft design, published in 1903, was a basis for modern spaceship design. The...
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    with the counterargument that the US was launching the crewed Gemini spacecraft atop a Titan II rocket with very similar propellants and it was not a...
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    program Lunokhod program Mars program Phobos program Marsnik program Astron (spacecraft) Orion 1 and Orion 2 Space Observatories RELIKT-1 Venera Vega program...
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    The Czechoslovak satellite MAGION was launched into orbit by the Soviet spacecraft Interkosmos 18 1978 November 3 - Vertikal-7 Ionosphere/Solar mission 1979...
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    December 1906] – 14 January 1966) was the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet...
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    understanding of our sister planet. Astron (spacecraft) – Soviet ultraviolet space telescope Pioneer Venus project – Two spacecraft send to Venus in 1978 Venera-D –...
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    suggest growing plants in greenhouses aboard a spacecraft. In 1911, he published plans for a spacecraft built using combustible alloys of aluminum in its...
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    and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft built by a European industrial consortium led by Matra Marconi Space (now...
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  • spaceflight Friedrich Zander, including suggesting in a 1925 paper that a spacecraft traveling between two planets could be accelerated at the beginning of...
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    propellant rockets, which became the prototypes of Soviet rockets and spacecraft. At the end of 1933 it became part of the Reactive Scientific Research...
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    Spektr-R (redirect from RadioAstron)
    RadioAstron, a space-based radio telescope. The expectation was that the 1F and 2F spacecraft would follow the expectations of the RadioAstron mission...
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    program Lunokhod program Mars program Phobos program Marsnik program Astron (spacecraft) Orion 1 and Orion 2 Space Observatories RELIKT-1 Venera Vega program...
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    and Russia". Nature News. Retrieved 14 March 2016. "RadioAstron User Handbook" (PDF). RadioAstron Science and Technical Operations Group. 29 July 2015. Retrieved...
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    selection and training of astronauts for the first space flight on the spacecraft "Vostok" was made in the Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist...
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    Mir (category Crewed spacecraft)
    assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996. It had a greater mass than any previous spacecraft. At the time it was the largest artificial satellite in orbit, succeeded...
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    List of space telescopes (category Lists of spacecraft)
    NSSD – Spacecraft – Trajectory Details (ASTRON)". NASA. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2008-02-27. "NASA – NSSDC – Spacecraft – Details...
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