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The Soviet space programCreated by: PICRYL - Public Domain Media Search EngineDated: 2017
NASA Early Rockets, Army ballistic missile agency
Over its sixty-year history, primarily classified military The Soviet space program was responsible for a number of pioneering accomplishments in space flight, including the first intercontinental ballistic missile (R-7), first satellite (Sputnik 1), first animal in Earth orbit (the dog Laika on Sputnik 2), first human in space and Earth orbit (cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1), first woman in space and Earth orbit (cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova on Vostok 6), first spacewalk (cosmonaut Alexey Leonov on Voskhod 2), first Moon impact (Luna 2), first image of the far side of the moon (Luna 3) and unmanned lunar soft landing (Luna 9), first space rover (Lunokhod 1), first sample of lunar soil automatically extracted and brought to Earth (Luna 16), and first space station (Salyut 1).
Further notable records included the first interplanetary probes: Venera 1 and Mars 1 to fly by Venus and Mars, respectively, Venera 3 and Mars 2 to impact the respective planet surface, and Venera 7 and Mars 3 to make soft landings on these planets.
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Zond 2. NASA public domain image colelction.

Zond 2. NASA public domain image colelction.

Description: (1965) Zond 2 was an automatic interplanetary station launched from a Tyazheliy Sputnik (64-078A) in Earth parking orbit towards Mars to test space-borne systems and to carry out scientific investi... More

ART CONCEPTS - APOLLO-SOYUZ TEST PROJECT (ASTP)

ART CONCEPTS - APOLLO-SOYUZ TEST PROJECT (ASTP)

S75-27290 (April 1975) --- An artist?s concept illustrating a cutaway view of the docked Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft in Earth orbit. This scene depicts the moment the two international crews meet in space for ... More

View of Mission Control during joint U.S.-USSR ASTP mission

View of Mission Control during joint U.S.-USSR ASTP mission

S75-28685 (17 July 1975) --- An overall view of activity in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center during joint U.S.-USSR Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) docking mission in Earth orb... More

A port view of the Soviet space control-monitoring ship KOSMONAUT YURIY GAGARIN underway

A port view of the Soviet space control-monitoring ship KOSMONAUT YURI...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Visitors at the 38th Paris International Air and Space Shown at Le Bourget Airfield line up to tour a Soviet An-225 Mechta aircraft with the Space Shuttle Buran on its back

Visitors at the 38th Paris International Air and Space Shown at Le Bou...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Le Bourget Airfield, Paris Country: France (FRA) Scene Camera Operator: MASTER SGT. Dave Casey Release Status: Released to Public Combined Milita... More

Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov seen in Mir's window from Shuttle Discovery

Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov seen in Mir's window from Shuttle Discovery

STS063-711-080 (6 Feb. 1995) --- Cosmonaut Valeriy V. Polyakov, who boarded Russia's Mir Space Station on January 8, 1994, looks out Mir's window during rendezvous operations with the Space Shuttle Discovery. ... More

Apollo Soyuz, Soviet Space Program

Apollo Soyuz, Soviet Space Program

Apollo Launch: July 15, 1975 Landing: July 24, 1975 Soyuz Launch: July 15, 1975 Landing July 21, 1975 Docking Time: July 17, 1975, at 12:12 p.m. EDT Undocking Time: July 19, 1975, at 11:26 a.m. EDT Total Tim... More

Soyuz Spacecraft in Orbit, Soviet Space Program

Soyuz Spacecraft in Orbit, Soviet Space Program

This scene was photographed with a handheld 70mm camera from a rendezvous window of the American Apollo spacecraft in Earth orbit during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) mission. It shows the Soviet Soyuz s... More

Apollo-Soyuz, 1975. NASA public domain image colelction.

Apollo-Soyuz, 1975. NASA public domain image colelction.

Image Credit: NASA..Description July 15, 1975.The first international space mission, the Apollo-Soyuz brought into contact American and Soviet crews in outerspace...This mission marked the end of the space race... More

Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in orbit as seen from American Apollo spacecraft

Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in orbit as seen from American Apollo spacecra...

AST-01-056 (18 July 1975) --- An excellent view of the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in Earth orbit, photographed from the American Apollo spacecraft during the joint U.S.-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) dockin... More

US and Soviet space launch vehicles. Courtesy of Soviet Military Power, 1984. PHOTO No. 41, Page 44

US and Soviet space launch vehicles. Courtesy of Soviet Military Power...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

American & Soviet engineers examine ASTP docking set-up following tests

American & Soviet engineers examine ASTP docking set-up following test...

S74-25394 (10 July 1974) --- A group of American and Soviet engineers of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project working group three examines an ASTP docking set-up following a docking mechanism fitness test conducted in... More

A starboard beam view of the Russian fish factory ship Zaliv Vostok underway

A starboard beam view of the Russian fish factory ship Zaliv Vostok un...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Western Pacific Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Soviet Space Program

Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Soviet Space Program

Yuri Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934 in a town outside of Moscow, Russia. After graduating from secondary school in 1949, Gagarin went to several technical schools before joining the Orenburg Higher Air Force... More

Saturn Apollo Program - Drawing. Public domain image.

Saturn Apollo Program - Drawing. Public domain image.

This illustration depicts a configuration of the Command Service Module (CSM) and Docking Module (DM) for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). The ASTP was the first international docking of the U.S.'s Apollo ... More

APOLLO-SOYUZ TEST PROJECT (ASTP) (DOCKING) - ART CONCEPT

APOLLO-SOYUZ TEST PROJECT (ASTP) (DOCKING) - ART CONCEPT

S74-24913 (August 1973) --- An artist's concept illustrating an Apollo-type spacecraft (left) about to dock with a Soviet Soyuz-type spacecraft. A recent agreement between the United States (USA) and the Union ... More

Simulations - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) - Soyuz - JSC

Simulations - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) - Soyuz - JSC

S75-21892 (20 Feb. 1975) --- Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford (left) and cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov participate in Apollo-Soyuz Test Project joint crew training in Building 35 at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Staff... More

Artist's concept of a Soviet space shuttle riding atop an M-4 Bison bomber aircraft. (From Soviet Military Power 1985)

Artist's concept of a Soviet space shuttle riding atop an M-4 Bison bo...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

An artist's concept of a Soviet space shuttle and heavy-lift launch vehicle. (Soviet Military Power, 1986)

An artist's concept of a Soviet space shuttle and heavy-lift launch ve...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

JSC2003-E-31961 (24 April 2003) --- The Soyuz rocket is erected at the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Expedition Seven is scheduled to launch onboard the Soyuz on Saturday April 26, 2003. Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls. jsc2003e31961

JSC2003-E-31961 (24 April 2003) --- The Soyuz rocket is erected at the...

JSC2003-E-31961 (24 April 2003) --- The Soyuz rocket is erected at the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Expedition Seven is scheduled to launch onboard the Soyuz on Saturday April 26, 2003. Ph... More

Expedition 18 Soyuz TMA-13 Launch

Expedition 18 Soyuz TMA-13 Launch

The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft launches carrying Expedition 18 Commander Michael Fincke, Flight Engineer Yuri V. Lonchakov and American spaceflight participant Richard Garriott, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008, from the Bai... More

NASA Early Rockets, Army ballistic missile agency

NASA Early Rockets, Army ballistic missile agency

The Army Ballistic Missile Agency incorporated the von Braun team in key positions with Dr. von Braun as a head of the Development Operations Division. On October 4, 1957, the Nation was shocked when the Russia... More

Mock-ups of USSR Soyuz spacecraft on display at Star City

Mock-ups of USSR Soyuz spacecraft on display at Star City

S74-24675 (June 1974) --- Two mock-ups of the USSR Soyuz spacecraft which are on display at the Cosmonaut Training Center (Star City) near Moscow. The Soyuz spacecraft mounted vertically on the left is a traini... More

ONBOARD PHOTOS - APOLLO-SOYUZ TEST PROJECT (ASTP) - "HANDSHAKE IN SPACE"

ONBOARD PHOTOS - APOLLO-SOYUZ TEST PROJECT (ASTP) - "HANDSHAKE IN SPAC...

S75-29432 (17 July 1975) --- Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford (in foreground) and cosmonaut Aleksei A. Leonov make their historic handshake in space on July 17, 1975 during the joint U.S.-USSR Apollo Soyuz Test Pro... More

Saturn Apollo Program. NASA public domain image. Kennedy space center.

Saturn Apollo Program. NASA public domain image. Kennedy space center.

This artist's concept depicts the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), the first international docking of the U.S.'s Apollo spacecraft and the U.S.S.R.'s Soyuz spacecraft in space. The objective of the ASTP missio... More

AST-06-374 - Apollo Soyuz Test Project - Apollo Soyuz Test Project, Stafford in Apollo Command Module

AST-06-374 - Apollo Soyuz Test Project - Apollo Soyuz Test Project, St...

The original database describes this as: Description: Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP),Apollo Commander Thomas P. Stafford in Apollo Command Module. Original Film Magazine: CI-15,Laboratory Roll 6; Camera Data... More

Model of a Soyuz spacecraft docking with the Salyut-7 space station. The display is in front of one of the pavilions of the Exhibition of Soviet National Economic Achievement

Model of a Soyuz spacecraft docking with the Salyut-7 space station. T...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Moscow Country: U.S.S.R. (SUN) Scene Camera Operator: Don S. Montgomery, USN (Ret.) Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service ... More

Thomas Stafford Trains in Soviet Simulator for ASTP

Thomas Stafford Trains in Soviet Simulator for ASTP

(October 17, 1972) Brig. Gen. Thomas P. Stafford (left), veteran of 3 US space flights, "flew" the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft simulator with Maj. Gen. Andriyan G. Nikolayev, veteran of two Soviet Space flights, du... More

Installation of Soyuz Spacecraft at Baikonur

Installation of Soyuz Spacecraft at Baikonur

The Soyuz spacecraft and launch vehicle are installed on the launch pad at the Baikonur complex in Kazakhstan. Baikonur is the world's largest space center. This launch was part of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project... More

MISSION CONTROL CENTER (MCC) - APOLLO-SOYUZ TEST PROJECT (ASTP) - JSC

MISSION CONTROL CENTER (MCC) - APOLLO-SOYUZ TEST PROJECT (ASTP) - JSC

S75-28683 (17 July 1975) --- An overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center during the joint U.S.-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project docking mission in Earth orbit. M.P. Frank,... More

Visitors at the 38th Paris International Air and Space Show at Le Bourget Airfield line up to tour a Soviet An-225 Mechta aircraft that is carrying the Space Shuttle Buran on its back

Visitors at the 38th Paris International Air and Space Show at Le Bour...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Le Bourget Airfield, Paris Country: France (FRA) Scene Camera Operator: MASTER SGT. Dave Casey Release Status: Released to Public Combined Milita... More

S79E5249 - STS-079 - Astronaut Blaha in the Mir space station Spektr module

S79E5249 - STS-079 - Astronaut Blaha in the Mir space station Spektr m...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: View of astronaut John Blaha working in the Mir space station Spektr module. Visible in the foreground are the two Thermoelectric Freezer Unit (TEF) lid... More

SIMULATIONS - APOLLO-SOYUZ TEST PROJECT (ASTP) - WATER EGRESS - JSC

SIMULATIONS - APOLLO-SOYUZ TEST PROJECT (ASTP) - WATER EGRESS - JSC

S75-23431 (8 March 1975) --- Astronaut Donald K. Slayton attaches his life preserver as he egresses an Apollo Command Module trainer in a water tank in Building 260 during water egress training at NASA's Johnso... More

ASTP - ARTIST CONCEPTS, Soviet Space Program

ASTP - ARTIST CONCEPTS, Soviet Space Program

S75-28510 (July 1975) --- An artist?s concept depicting the Soviet ASTP Soyuz spacecraft in Earth orbit. The three major components of the Soyuz are the spherical-shaped Orbital Module on which the letters CCCP... More

Final testing of the Soviet Salyut-7 space station before launch. "Soviet Military Power," 1983, Page 69

Final testing of the Soviet Salyut-7 space station before launch. "Sov...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A chart showing the various types of Soviet space launch vehicles. From Soviet Military Power 1985

A chart showing the various types of Soviet space launch vehicles. Fro...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A partial rear view of the Soviet space shuttle Buran atop an An-225 Mechta aircraft, on display at the 38th Paris International Air and Space at Le Bourget Airfield

A partial rear view of the Soviet space shuttle Buran atop an An-225 M...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Paris Country: France (FRA) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Dave Casey Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Mir 22 cosmonauts in training at Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia

Mir 22 cosmonauts in training at Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Cente...

S96-13233 (July 1996) --- Cosmonaut Valeri G. Korzun egresses a trainer at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia. Korzun is Mir-24 commander. EDITOR'S NOTE: Since this photograph was taken cosmon... More

Artist's concept of Apollo/Soyuz spacecraft docking approach

Artist's concept of Apollo/Soyuz spacecraft docking approach

S73-02395 (August 1973) --- An artist?s concept illustrating an Apollo-type spacecraft (on left) about to dock with a Soviet Soyuz-type spacecraft. A recent agreement between the United States and the Union of ... More

PROTOCOL - APOLLO-SOYUZ TEST PROJECT (ASTP) - TOUR - WASHINGTON, DC

PROTOCOL - APOLLO-SOYUZ TEST PROJECT (ASTP) - TOUR - WASHINGTON, DC

S74-29892 (7 Sept. 1974) --- President Gerald R. Ford removes the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft model from a model set depicting the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, an Earth orbital docking and rendezvous mission inv... More

SIMULATIONS - APOLLO-SOYUZ TEST PROJECT (ASTP) - COMMAND MODULE (CM)/FOOD - JSC

SIMULATIONS - APOLLO-SOYUZ TEST PROJECT (ASTP) - COMMAND MODULE (CM)/F...

S75-22747 (25 Feb. 1975) --- An interior view of the Apollo Command Module trainer in Building 35 showing the three American ASTP prime crewmen lying in their couches during Apollo-Soyuz Test Project training a... More

View of Soyuz spacecraft which was part of exhibit

View of Soyuz spacecraft which was part of exhibit

S73-27666 (May-June 1973) --- A close-up view of the Soyuz spacecraft which was part of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project exhibit at the 30th International Aeronautics and Space Exhibition held May 24 ? June 3, 197... More

Cosmonaut Aleksey Leonov joins belly dancer on stage at Folklife Festival

Cosmonaut Aleksey Leonov joins belly dancer on stage at Folklife Festi...

S74-28666 (14 Sept. 1974) --- Cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov, in one of the lighter moments of activity involving Soviet cosmonauts and American astronauts, joins a belly dancer on stage as several visitors to wee... More

APOLLO-SOYUZ TEST PROJECT (ASTP) - ART CONCEPTS

APOLLO-SOYUZ TEST PROJECT (ASTP) - ART CONCEPTS

S75-25077 (May 1975) --- A photographic copy of a painting made by cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov, commander of the Soviet ASTP first (prime) crew. This symbolic artwork, representing a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft doc... More

Valentina Tereshkova. NASA public domain image colelction.

Valentina Tereshkova. NASA public domain image colelction.

(1977) Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Vladimirovna Nikolayevna-Tereshkova looks over the Apollo Command Module on exhibit in Building 2 during a tour of the Johnson Space Center in 1977. Tereshkova was the first fe... More

Artist's concept of a Soviet space shuttle approaching a manned space complex. (From Soviet Military Power 1985)

Artist's concept of a Soviet space shuttle approaching a manned space ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A partial rear view of the Soviet Space Shuttle Buran, on display at the 38th Paris International Air and Space Show at Le Bourget Airfield

A partial rear view of the Soviet Space Shuttle Buran, on display at t...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Le Bourget Airfield, Paris Country: France (FRA) Scene Camera Operator: MASTER SGT. Dave Casey Release Status: Released to Public Combined Milita... More

Sputnik Planum, in Color, JPL/NASA images

Sputnik Planum, in Color, JPL/NASA images

This high-resolution image captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC). The bright expanse is the western lobe... More

A close-up view of three engine exhaust nozzles on a Soviet An-225 Mechta aircraft exhibited at the 38th Paris International Air and Space Show at Le Bourget Airfield

A close-up view of three engine exhaust nozzles on a Soviet An-225 Mec...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Paris Country: France (FRA) Scene Camera Operator: MASTER Sergeant Dave Casey Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digita... More

STS079-335-012 - STS-079 - Astronauts Wilcutt and Lucid in Mir docking node

STS079-335-012 - STS-079 - Astronauts Wilcutt and Lucid in Mir docking...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: STS-79 pilot Terry Wilcutt prepares to enter the Mir docking node from one of the other space station modules. Subject Terms: ASTRONAUTS, MIR SPACE STA... More

Mir Space Station survey views taken during STS-76 mission

Mir Space Station survey views taken during STS-76 mission

STS076-708-031 (22 - 31 March 1996) --- Clouds over Brazil form the backdrop for this 70mm image showing the Spektr Module and other components of Russia's Mir Space Station. The photograph was taken after Spa... More

ASTP Patch, Soviet Space Program

ASTP Patch, Soviet Space Program

(February 27, 1975) This is the American crew insignia of the joint United States-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). The white stars on the blue background represent American astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, ... More

Soviet space launch vehicles - U.S. National Archives Public Domain photograph

Soviet space launch vehicles - U.S. National Archives Public Domain ph...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

An elevated starboard view of a Soviet space control/monitoring ship KOSMONAUT YURI GAGARIN underway. (SUBSTANDARD)

An elevated starboard view of a Soviet space control/monitoring ship K...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Global view of Venus from Magellan, Pioneer, and Venera data

Global view of Venus from Magellan, Pioneer, and Venera data

This global view of Venus, centered at 270 degrees east longitude, is a compilation of data from several sources. Magellan synthetic aperature radar mosaics from the first cycle of Magellan mapping are mapped o... More

APOLLO-SOYUZ TEST PROJECT (ASTP) - FOOD

APOLLO-SOYUZ TEST PROJECT (ASTP) - FOOD

S74-20797 (23 April 1974) --- Candidate food items being considered for the joint U.S.-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission are sampled by three ASTP crewmen in Building 4 at the Johnson Space Center. They ar... More

STS074-709-037 - STS-074 - Mir space station seen through aft flight deck windows

STS074-709-037 - STS-074 - Mir space station seen through aft flight d...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: The Base Block, Kristall and Spektr modules of the Russian Mir space station can be seen through the aft flight deck windows of the space shuttle Atlant... More

STS074-709-054 - STS-074 - Mir space station seen through aft flight deck windows

STS074-709-054 - STS-074 - Mir space station seen through aft flight d...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: The Base Block, Kvant, Progress, Kristall and Spektr modules of the Russian Mir space station can be seen through the aft flight deck windows of the spa... More

A life-size, cut-away model of a Soviet communications satellite on display in one of the pavilions of the Exhibition of Soviet National Economic Achievement

A life-size, cut-away model of a Soviet communications satellite on di...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Moscow Country: Russia (RUS) Scene Camera Operator: Don S. Montgomery, USN (Ret.) Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Di... More

A port beam view of the Soviet Kosmonaut Pavel Belyayev class space control-monitoring ship KOSMONAUT VIKTOR PATSAYEV underway

A port beam view of the Soviet Kosmonaut Pavel Belyayev class space co...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

STS074-344-017 - STS-074 - Astronaut Hadfield on the Mir space station

STS074-344-017 - STS-074 - Astronaut Hadfield on the Mir space station

The original finding aid described this as: Description: View of STS-74 mission specialist Chris Hadfield in the connecting tunnel between the Docking Module and the Kristall module Subject Terms: ASTRONAUTS,... More

Astronaut Precourt floats into Mir space station

Astronaut Precourt floats into Mir space station

STS071-105-021 (27 June-7 July 1995) --- Astronaut Charles J. Precourt, STS-71 pilot, floats from the space shuttle Atlantis into Russia's Mir Space Station Kristall Module during the historic eleven-day flight... More

WMD Dismantlement - Senator Sam Nunn visit to various former Soviet Union (FSU) Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) production facilities, undated, unknown location

WMD Dismantlement - Senator Sam Nunn visit to various former Soviet Un...

WMD Dismantlement - Senator Sam Nunn visit to various former Soviet Union (FSU) Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) production facilities, undated, unknown location

STS079-336-020 - STS-079 - Astronaut Lucid on treadmill in the Mir Base Block

STS079-336-020 - STS-079 - Astronaut Lucid on treadmill in the Mir Bas...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: STS-79 mission commander William Readdy joins Lucid while she exercises on the treadmill. Subject Terms: PHYSICAL EXERCISE, ASTRONAUTS, MIR SPACE STATI... More

Expedition 8 Soyuz Transport. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 8 Soyuz Transport. NASA public domain image colelction.

A Soyuz TMA-3 spacecraft and its booster rocket is transported on a rail car to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2003 in preparation for liftoff Oct. 18 to carry Exped... More

Expedition 10 Preflight. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 10 Preflight. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Soyuz TMA-5 vehicle rolled to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Tuesday, October 12, 2004, in preparation for its launch October 14 to send Expedition 10 Commander and NASA Science Of... More

Expedition 10 Preflight. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 10 Preflight. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Soyuz TMA-5 vehicle rolled to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Tuesday, October 12, 2004, in preparation for its launch October 14 to send Expedition 10 Commander and NASA Science Of... More

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan -- The Soyuz rocket is rolled out of the assembly building and travels via rail to the launch pad.  Expedition Seven is scheduled to launch onboard the Soyuz April 26, 2003. Cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, commander, and astronaut Ed Lu, NASA science officer and flight engineer, were named as the primary crew, Expedition 7, for the launch to the International Space Station. Russian cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri and NASA astronaut Michael Foale are the backup crewmembers to Malenchenko and Lu.  Expedition 6 Commander Ken Bowersox, Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin and NASA Space Station Science Officer Don Pettit will return to Earth aboard the Soyuz TMA-1 craft in May 2003. The three Expedition 6 crewmembers were launched on Nov. 23, 2002. They have been aboard the Station since November 25. They were originally scheduled to return in March aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis during the STS-114 mission.  Malenchenko and Lu will continue to operate the science payloads already on board, as well as maintaining the Station.  Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls KSC-03pd1271

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan -- The Soyuz rocket is rolled out of t...

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan -- The Soyuz rocket is rolled out of the assembly building and travels via rail to the launch pad. Expedition Seven is scheduled to launch onboard the Soyuz April 26, 2003. Cosm... More

Expedition 11 Launch. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 11 Launch. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 11 Commander Sergei Krikalev, Flight Engineer and NASA Science Officer John Phillips and European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori of Italy blast off aboard the Soyuz TMA-6 spacecraft from the ... More

Expedition 13 Preflight. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 13 Preflight. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Soyuz TMA-8 spacecraft and its booster rolled out to the launch pad on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan for final pre-launch preparations. The Soyuz will blast off ... More

Expedition 13 Preflight. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 13 Preflight. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Soyuz TMA-8 spacecraft and its booster rolled out to the launch pad on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan for final pre-launch preparations. The Soyuz will blast off ... More

Expedition 13 Launch. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 13 Launch. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 13 Commander Pavel V. Vinogradov and Science Officer and Flight Engineer Jeffrey N. Williams began their mission Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. EST, (Thursday, March 30, 2006, 8:30 a.m. Kazakhstan time). The... More

Expedition 14 Launch. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 14 Launch. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Monday, Sept. 18, 2006, carrying a new crew to the International Space Station. The Soyuz lifted off at 10:09 a.m. local time with ... More

Expedition 18 Soyuz TMA-13 Launch

Expedition 18 Soyuz TMA-13 Launch

The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft launches carrying Expedition 18 Commander Michael Fincke, Flight Engineer Yuri V. Lonchakov and American spaceflight participant Richard Garriott, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008, from the Bai... More

Expedition 19 Soyuz Assembly. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 19 Soyuz Assembly. NASA public domain image colelction.

An engineer monitors the maneuvering the Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft and third stage during final assembly to the first and second stages Monday, March 23, 2009 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz ... More

Expedition 21 Soyuz Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 21 Soyuz Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

Launch scaffolding is raised into place around the Soyuz rocket shortly after arrival to the launch pad Monday, Sept. 28, 2009 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz is scheduled to launch the cre... More

Expedition 23 Docking. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 23 Docking. NASA public domain image colelction.

View of Russian Mission Control Center in Korolev, Russia moments before the Soyuz TMA-18 docks to the International Space Station on Sunday, April 4, 2010. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)

Expedition 25 Soyuz Landing. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 25 Soyuz Landing. NASA public domain image colelction.

A technician enters the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft with Expedition 25 Commander Doug Wheelock and Flight Engineers Shannon Walker and Fyodor Yurchikhin in order to assist with getting the crew out of the capsule, ... More

A close up of a metal structure with wires. Latvia irbene soviet, science technology.
APOLLO-SOYUZ TEST PROJECT (ASTP) - CREWMEN (COSMONAUTS)

APOLLO-SOYUZ TEST PROJECT (ASTP) - CREWMEN (COSMONAUTS)

S74-20824 (April 1974) --- Cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov Public domain photograph of Apollo-Soyuz, joint Unites States - Soviet space flight, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Apollo–Soyuz Test P... More

Russian and American Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) - Prime Crew Portrait

Russian and American Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) - Prime Crew Por...

S75-22410 (March 1975) --- These five men compose the two prime crews of the joint United States-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) docking mission in Earth orbit scheduled for July 1975. They are astronaut ... More

Joint certificate marking historical moment during ASTP rendezvous

Joint certificate marking historical moment during ASTP rendezvous

AST-03-171 (17 July 1975) --- The hands of cosmonaut Valerly N. Kubasov are seen as the ASTP engineer adds his name to the signature on the Soviet side of the official joint certificate marking an historical mo... More

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, a wintry scene serves as a backdrop for a familiar sight – Lenin’s Statue --- commemorating Vladimir Lenin’s who led an evolving Soviet Union from 1917-1924. The photo was captured on Nov. 1, 2016.  NASA/Stephanie Stoll jsc2016e179945

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, a wintr...

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, a wintry scene serves as a backdrop for a familiar sight – Lenin’s Statue --- commemorating Vladimir Lenin’s who led an evolving Soviet Union from ... More

STS074-709-072 - STS-074 - Mir space station seen through aft flight deck windows

STS074-709-072 - STS-074 - Mir space station seen through aft flight d...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: The Base Block, Kvant, Progress, Kristall and Spektr modules of the Russian Mir space station can be seen through the aft flight deck windows of the spa... More

STS074-709-073 - STS-074 - Mir space station seen through aft flight deck windows

STS074-709-073 - STS-074 - Mir space station seen through aft flight d...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: The Base Block, Kvant, Progress, Kristall and Spektr modules of the Russian Mir space station can be seen through the aft flight deck windows of the spa... More

Recovery of Soviet space plane. Courtesy of Soviet Military Power, 1984. PHOTO No. 38, Page 42, top

Recovery of Soviet space plane. Courtesy of Soviet Military Power, 198...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

An overhead view of a life-size replica of a large Soviet communications satellite recently launched into Earth orbit. The craft is on display in one of the pavilions of the Exhibition of Soviet National Economic Achievement

An overhead view of a life-size replica of a large Soviet communicatio...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Moscow Country: Russia (RUS) Scene Camera Operator: Don S. Montgomery, USN (Ret.) Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Di... More

A graph comparing the number of U.S. and Soviet space launches between 1960 and 1985

A graph comparing the number of U.S. and Soviet space launches between...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

An aerial view of the Soviet space tracking facility at Dushanbe

An aerial view of the Soviet space tracking facility at Dushanbe

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: U.S.S.R. (SUN) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A port view of the Soviet Civilian space event support ship KOSMONAVT YURIY GAGARIN

A port view of the Soviet Civilian space event support ship KOSMONAVT ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Mir space station as seen from STS-63 Discovery

Mir space station as seen from STS-63 Discovery

STS063-708-057 (6 Feb. 1995) --- Backdropped against the darkness of space, only the shiny part of Russia's Mir Space Station are clearly visible in this 70mm frame, photographed during rendezvous operations by... More

Mir 18 extravehicular activity. NASA public domain image colelction.

Mir 18 extravehicular activity. NASA public domain image colelction.

NM18-305-023 (March-July 1995) --- Cosmonaut Gennadiy M. Strekalov, Mir-18 flight engineer, is photographed during one of five space walks conducted by the Mir-18 crew. This is one of many visuals shown during... More

STS079-783-045 - STS-079 - Survey views of Mir space station taken while docked with orbiter

STS079-783-045 - STS-079 - Survey views of Mir space station taken whi...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Survey views of the Mir space station taken by the crew of the shuttle Atlantis while the orbiter was docked with the station. Views include: Rapana and... More

Mir Space Station survey views taken during STS-76 mission

Mir Space Station survey views taken during STS-76 mission

STS076-708-038 (22 - 31 March 1996) --- The crew took this 70mm picture of Russia's Mir Space Station over Australia. The crew docked the Space Shuttle Atlantis with the Mir Space Station on March 23, 1996, at... More

Mir Space Station views after undocking and flyaround by shuttle Atlantis

Mir Space Station views after undocking and flyaround by shuttle Atlan...

STS076-713-036 (23 March 1996) --- Backdropped against the waters of Cook Strait near New Zealand's South Island, Russia's Mir Space Station is seen from the aft flight deck window of the Space Shuttle Atlantis... More

Expedition 8 Soyuz Transport. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 8 Soyuz Transport. NASA public domain image colelction.

A Soyuz TMA-3 spacecraft and its booster rocket is seen, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2003, on a rail car near the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan during preparations for liftoff Oct. 18 to carry Exped... More

Expedition 8 Soyuz Transport. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 8 Soyuz Transport. NASA public domain image colelction.

With a mockup of the defunct Russian "Buran" Space Shuttle sitting nearby, right, a Soyuz TMA-3 spacecraft and its booster rocket is transported on a rail car to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazak... More

Expedition 10 Preflight. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 10 Preflight. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft is mated to its booster rocket in a processing hangar at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Monday, October 11, 2004, in preparation for its rollout to the launch pad October 12 an... More

Expedition 10 Preflight. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 10 Preflight. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft is mated to its booster rocket in a processing hangar at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Monday, October 11, 2004, in preparation for its rollout to the launch pad October 12 an... More

Expedition 11 Soyuz Preparation

Expedition 11 Soyuz Preparation

Russian technicians work, Tuesday, April 12, 2005, on mating the Soyuz TMA-6 spacecraft to the booster rocket inside the integration facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan as preparations continued f... More

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