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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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STS074-709-086 - STS-074 - Mir space station seen through aft flight deck windows

STS074-709-086 - 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

S91E5071 - STS-091 - Crewmember activity in the Mir Space Station and shuttle orbiter

S91E5071 - STS-091 - Crewmember activity in the Mir Space Station and ...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: ``View of crewmember activity in the Mir Space Station. Mir 25 flight engineer Talgat A. Musabayev, STS-91 Mission Specialist Valery Ryumin and STS-91 m... More

STS074-721-017 - STS-074 - Mir space station seen from aft flight deck

STS074-721-017 - STS-074 - Mir space station seen from aft flight deck

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Views of the Spektr, Kristall, Base Block, Kvant and Progress modules of the Mir space station as seen from the aft flight deck of the shuttle Atlantis ... 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 model of a Salyut-7 space station, with a Soyuz space craft docked at each end. The display is in front of one of the pavilions of the Exhibition of Soviet National Economic Achievement located across from the Kosmos Hotel on the north side of the city

A model of a Salyut-7 space station, with a Soyuz space craft docked a...

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

A chart depicting Soviet space launch vehicles

A chart depicting Soviet space launch vehicles

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

A starboard bow view of the Soviet space communication ship AKADEMIK SERGEY KOROLEV underway

A starboard bow view of the Soviet space communication ship AKADEMIK S...

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

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

Mir space station as seen from STS-63 Discovery

Mir space station as seen from STS-63 Discovery

STS063-712-068 (6 Feb 1995) --- Russia's Mir Space Station during rendezvous operations with the Space Shuttle Discovery. Docked at bottom (nearest portion where longest solar array panel is visible) is a Soyu... More

Mir 18 extravehicular activity. NASA public domain image colelction.

Mir 18 extravehicular activity. NASA public domain image colelction.

NM18-305-008 (March-July 1995) --- Cosmonaut Vladimir N. Dezhurov, Mir-18 mission commander, is photographed during one of five spacewalks conducted by the Mir-18 crew. Dezhurov is working with solar array pane... More

Core module of Mir space station

Core module of Mir space station

NM18-302-038 (28 June 1995) --- Astronaut Norman E. Thagard, Mir-18 cosmonaut researcher, took this picture aboard Mir on the eve of the targeted arrival day of Atlantis. Thagard told a July 18 press conference... More

Kvant-2,Kristall and Spektr modules on Mir Space Station

Kvant-2,Kristall and Spektr modules on Mir Space Station

STS071-701-025 (29 June 1995) --- The approach for the June 29, 1995, link-up of the Russian Mir Space Station and the space shuttle Atlantis was recorded with a 70mm handheld camera from the aft flight deck of... More

STS079-336-027 - STS-079 - Astronaut Lucid on treadmill in the Mir Base Block

STS079-336-027 - STS-079 - Astronaut Lucid on treadmill in the Mir Bas...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Lucid exercises while Blaha reviews his flight data file. Subject Terms: PHYSICAL EXERCISE, ASTRONAUTS, MIR SPACE STATION, ONBOARD ACTIVITIES, STS-79 ... More

STS079-357-030 - STS-079 - Mir 22 crew and Astronaut Blaha in the Mir Base Block module

STS079-357-030 - STS-079 - Mir 22 crew and Astronaut Blaha in the Mir ...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Mir 22 commander Valeri Korzun (left) uses the Mir communications equipment while Mir 22 flight engineer Aleksandr Kaleri (background) and astronaut Joh... More

A Russian 3-stage Proton rocket blasts into the sky at 12:56 a.m. EDT with the Russian-built Zvezda module in a successful launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Zvezda is the primary Russian contribution to the International Space Station, serving as the early Station living quarters. It will also provide early propulsive attitude control and reboost capabilities and be the main docking port for Russian Progress cargo resupply vehicles. The third Station component, Zvezda will dock by remote control with the already orbiting Zarya and Unity modules at an altitude of about 245 by 230 statute miles. <i>(Image taken with Nikon D1 digital camera.)</i KSC-00padig028

A Russian 3-stage Proton rocket blasts into the sky at 12:56 a.m. EDT ...

A Russian 3-stage Proton rocket blasts into the sky at 12:56 a.m. EDT with the Russian-built Zvezda module in a successful launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Zvezda is the primary Russian contributio... 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 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 Launch Day. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 8 Launch Day. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 8 Soyuz Commander Alexander Kaleri, Expedition 8 Commander and NASA Science Officer Michael Foale along with European Space Agency astronaut Pedro Duque, not seen, ride the elevator to the top of the... 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 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

Expedition 11 Landing. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 11 Landing. NASA public domain image colelction.

Divits made by the landing jets of the Soyuz capsule, background, are seen after touchdown, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2005, near Arlalyk, Kazakhstan. Members of the 11th expedition to the international space station, a... More

Expedition 16 Preflight. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 16 Preflight. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft is transported by railcar to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Monday, Oct. 8, 2007, in Kazakhstan for an October 10th launch date. The Soyuz will carry Expedition 16 Comma... More

Expedition 21 Soyuz Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 21 Soyuz Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Soyuz rocket is seen shortly after arrival to the launch pad Monday, Sept. 28, 2009 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz is scheduled to launch the crew of Expedition 21 and a spaceflight pa... 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

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 46-47 crewmember Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) reviews procedures inside a Soyuz spacecraft simulator Nov. 20 at the start of final qualification exams. Malenchenko and crewmates Tim Peake of the European Space Agency and Tim Kopra of NASA will launch Dec. 15 on their Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft Dec. 15 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-month mission on the International Space Station..NASA/Seth Marcantel

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

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 46-47 crewmember Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) reviews procedures inside a Soyuz spacecraft simulator... More

In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 47-48 crewmembers Jeff Williams of NASA (left) and Alexey Ovchinin (center) and Oleg Skripochka (right) of Roscosmos pose for pictures March 4 in front of the scaffolding surrounding their Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft during final pre-launch training. The trio will launch March 19, Kazakh time,  for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.  Courtesy of Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center jsc2016e026342

In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, ...

In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 47-48 crewmembers Jeff Williams of NASA (left) and Alexey Ovchinin (center) and Oleg Skripochka (right) of Roscosmos pose for pic... More

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

Meeting - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP)

Meeting - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP)

S74-20794 (23 April 1974) --- Cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov (center), commander of the Soviet crew of the joint U.S.-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission, goes through familiarization training with a television... 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

ASTP -  INSIGNIAS, Soviet Space Program

ASTP - INSIGNIAS, Soviet Space Program

S75-20361 (27 Feb. 1975) --- This is the American crew insignia of the joint United States-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) scheduled to take place in July 1975. Of circular design, the insignia has a col... 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

SIMULATIONS - APOLLO-SOYUZ TEST PROJECT (ASTP)

SIMULATIONS - APOLLO-SOYUZ TEST PROJECT (ASTP)

S75-24899 (April 1975) --- An exhibit illustrating the space suits designed for the Soviet cosmonaut crewmen of the joint U.S.-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project docking mission in Earth orbit. These were on displa... More

Launch Preparations - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) - USSR

Launch Preparations - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) - USSR

S75-25615 (April 1975) --- The Soviet Soyuz spacecraft for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission is seen during prelaunch preparations at the Baikonur launch complex near Tyuratam in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist... More

STS074-721-050 - STS-074 - Mir space station seen from aft flight deck

STS074-721-050 - STS-074 - Mir space station seen from aft flight deck

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Views of the Sofora Truss and the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm on the space shuttle Atlantis silhouetted against a cloudy Earth. The views were t... More

STS074-709-060 - STS-074 - Mir space station seen through aft flight deck windows

STS074-709-060 - 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

STS074-709-038 - STS-074 - Mir space station seen through aft flight deck windows

STS074-709-038 - 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

Illustration showing new U.S. and Soviet space launch vehicles. "Soviet Military Power," 1983, Page 68

Illustration showing new U.S. and Soviet space launch vehicles. "Sovie...

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

SL-4 space launch vehicle. Courtesy of Soviet Military Power, 1984. PHOTO No. 42, page 45

SL-4 space launch vehicle. Courtesy of Soviet Military Power, 1984. PH...

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

Recovery of Soviet space plane - U.S. National Archives Public Domain photograph

Recovery of Soviet space plane - U.S. National Archives Public Domain ...

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

Recovery of Soviet space plane. Courtesy of Soviet Military Power, 1984. PHOTO No. 39, page 42, bottom

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

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

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

A life-size replica of a large Soviet communications satellite recentl...

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

An elevated view of the Yuri Gagarin Monument devoted to the achievements of the Soviet people in space exploration. Behind the monument the Moscow television tower (tallest reinforced concrete structure in the world) can be seen. The circular building in the foreground is one of the stations of the Moscow subway system

An elevated view of the Yuri Gagarin Monument devoted to the achieveme...

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

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

STS089-368-037 - STS-089 - Mir Space Station mated to the Orbiter Endeavour

STS089-368-037 - STS-089 - Mir Space Station mated to the Orbiter Ende...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: The Mir Space Station mated to the Orbiter Endeavour, as seen from an Endeavour window during STS-89. The Earth limb is in view. Subject Terms: STS-89,... More

Loose cords floating in Mir Core module

Loose cords floating in Mir Core module

NM18-307-014 (March-July 1995) --- Onboard Mir's Spektr module, cosmonaut Vladimir N. Dezhurov re-routes cables as part of the module's activation process. This visual was one of many shown by the Mir-18 crew ... More

STS079-783-061 - STS-079 - Survey views of Mir space station taken while docked with orbiter

STS079-783-061 - 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: Solar arra... More

STS079-357-014 - STS-079 - Astronaut Lucid and Mir 22 flight engineer Kaleri prepare items for transfer

STS079-357-014 - STS-079 - Astronaut Lucid and Mir 22 flight engineer ...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Astronaut Shannon Lucid and Mir 22 flight engineer Aleksandr Kaleri prepare several boxes of empty Russian food containers to be transferred to the STS-... More

Survey views of the Mir space station

Survey views of the Mir space station

STS079-817-034 (16-26 Sept. 1996) --- The Russian Mir Space Station is backdropped over a storm in the Roaring 40's near Heard Island in the south Indian Ocean. This photograph is one of four 70mm frames (along... More

Mir space station as seen after undocking from the shuttle Atlantis

Mir space station as seen after undocking from the shuttle Atlantis

STS79-E-5327 (24 September 1996) --- Russia's Mir Space Station, as seen in this Electronic Still Camera (ESC) photo from the Space Shuttle Atlantis, and the Space Shuttle begin their relative separation follow... More

Mir space station as seen after undocking from the shuttle Atlantis

Mir space station as seen after undocking from the shuttle Atlantis

STS79-E-5355 (16-26 September 1996) --- Several minutes later, the STS-79 astronauts enjoyed this view of the Russia's Mir Space Station complex backdropped against the blackness of space over Earth's horizon. ... More

Payload bay and ODS after undocking with Mir

Payload bay and ODS after undocking with Mir

STS079-808-008 (16-26 Sept. 1996) --- In this 70mm frame from the space shuttle Atlantis, the Nile River wanders through the eastern Sahara Desert of Sudan and Egypt. In the foreground is a great bend of the N... More

JSC2003-E-31958 (24 April 2003) --- A Soyuz rocket is rolled out of the assembly building and travels via rail to 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. jsc2003e31958

JSC2003-E-31958 (24 April 2003) --- A Soyuz rocket is rolled out of th...

JSC2003-E-31958 (24 April 2003) --- A Soyuz rocket is rolled out of the assembly building and travels via rail to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Expedition Seven is scheduled to launch o... More

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 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 raised, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2003, on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan during preparations for liftoff Oct. 18 to carry Expedition 8 Comman... 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 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 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 11 Landing. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 11 Landing. NASA public domain image colelction.

A helicopter is silouhetted in the early morning sunlight awaiting transport of members of the 11th expedition to the international space station, Astronaut John Phillips and Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, followin... 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

jsc2017e043845 (April 14, 2017) --- In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 51 backup crewmember Randy Bresnik of NASA enters the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft April 14 during a final training session. Bresnik and Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) are serving as backups to Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos and Jack Fischer of NASA, who will launch April 20 on the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft for a four and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center/Andrey Shelepin jsc2017e043845

jsc2017e043845 (April 14, 2017) --- In the Integration Facility at the...

jsc2017e043845 (April 14, 2017) --- In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 51 backup crewmember Randy Bresnik of NASA enters the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft April 14 during ... More

Astronauts and Cosmonauts sightseeing at Red Square in Moscow

Astronauts and Cosmonauts sightseeing at Red Square in Moscow

S74-20831 (November 1973) --- A group of astronauts and their cosmonaut hosts are photographed sightseeing on Red Square in the heart of Moscow during a tour of the Soviet capital. The Americans were in the USS... More

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

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

S75-28682 (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. The large t... More

Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in orbit as seen from American Apollo spacecraft

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

AST-01-053 (17-19 July 1975) --- The Soviet Soyuz spacecraft is contrasted against a black-sky background in this photograph taken in Earth orbit. This view is looking toward the aft end of the Soyuz. Two solar... More

Apollo Soyuz Test Project Commemorative plaque in orbit

Apollo Soyuz Test Project Commemorative plaque in orbit

AST-05-263 (17-18 July 1975) --- The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) Commemorative Plaque is assembled in the Soviet Soyuz Orbital Module during the joint U.S.-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project docking mission in... More

AMERICAN AND SOVIET ASTRONAUTS - LEONOV - SOVIET - APOLLO SOYUZ

AMERICAN AND SOVIET ASTRONAUTS - LEONOV - SOVIET - APOLLO SOYUZ

The original finding aid described this as: Capture Date: 5/27/1976 Photographer: COPY NEGATIVE Keywords: Larsen Scan Photographs Relating to Agency Activities, Facilities and Personnel

STS074-709-066 - STS-074 - Mir space station seen through aft flight deck windows

STS074-709-066 - 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

STS074-721-025 - STS-074 - Mir space station seen from aft flight deck

STS074-721-025 - STS-074 - Mir space station seen from aft flight deck

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Views of the Base Block, Kvant, Sofora truss, and Progress modules of the Mir space station as seen from the aft flight deck of the shuttle Atlantis. S... More

STS074-721-014 - STS-074 - Mir space station seen from aft flight deck

STS074-721-014 - STS-074 - Mir space station seen from aft flight deck

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Views of the Spektr, Kristall, Base Block, Kvant and Progress modules of the Mir space station as seen from the aft flight deck of the shuttle Atlantis ... More

STS074-709-045 - STS-074 - Mir space station seen through aft flight deck windows

STS074-709-045 - 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

STS074-709-035 - STS-074 - Mir space station seen through aft flight deck windows

STS074-709-035 - 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

STS074-709-093 - STS-074 - Mir space station seen through aft flight deck windows

STS074-709-093 - 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

The Soviet MIR space station - Public domain NASA photogrpaph

The Soviet MIR space station - Public domain NASA photogrpaph

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

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

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 starboard quarter view of the Soviet Korolev class civilian space associated ship AKADEMIK SERGEY KOROLEV underway

A starboard quarter view of the Soviet Korolev class civilian space as...

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 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: Paris Country: France (FRA) Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Dave Casey Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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

Mir space station as seen from STS-63 Discovery

Mir space station as seen from STS-63 Discovery

STS063-712-017 (6 Feb. 1995) --- Russia's Mir Space Station during rendezvous operations with the Space Shuttle Discovery. Docked at the bottom of the Mir facility is a Soyuz spacecraft. On the opposite end (... More

Mir Training Facility. NASA public domain image colelction.

Mir Training Facility. NASA public domain image colelction.

S95-04320 (22 Feb 1995) --- A full-scale mockup of Russia's Space Station with the core module called Mir in the center. Other modules connected to the core include Kvant, Kvant II and Kristall. The mockup at... 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

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

View of APAS during docking with Mir Space Station

View of APAS during docking with Mir Space Station

STS076-344-003 (24 March 1996) --- The Space Shuttle Atlantis Orbiter Docking System (ODS) and the Docking Module (DM) on Russia's Mir Space Station appear near the center of this frame, as the Atlantis and Mir... 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

STS086-718-026 - STS-086 - Soyuz spacecraft and Travers antenna on Mir space station

STS086-718-026 - STS-086 - Soyuz spacecraft and Travers antenna on Mir...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Several views of the Soyuz spacecraft (scanning from top to bottom) docked to the Mir space station central node taken by the STS-86 orbiter Atlantis cr... More

STS089-338-026 - STS-089 - Pilot Edwards floats by a flight deck window framing the Mir Space Station

STS089-338-026 - STS-089 - Pilot Edwards floats by a flight deck windo...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: STS-89 Pilot Joe Edwards floats by a flight deck window on the Orbiter Endeavour framing the Mir Space Station. Subject Terms: STS-89, ENDEAVOUR (ORBIT... More

Expedition 7 Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 7 Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

A Soyuz rocket is rolled out of the assembly building and travels via rail to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Thursday, April 24, 2003. Expedition 7 is scheduled to launch onb... More

Expedition 7 Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 7 Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Soyuz rocket is erected at the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Thursday, April 24, 2003. Expedition 7 is scheduled to launch onboard the Soyuz on Saturday April 26, 2003. Phot... 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 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

Beside Vostok Crater - Mars exploration rover images

Beside Vostok Crater - Mars exploration rover images

Beside Vostok Crater NASA/JPL Public domain photograph of a solar system, planet, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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 16 Preflight. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 16 Preflight. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft is transported by railcar to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Monday, Oct. 8, 2007, in Kazakhstan for an October 10th launch date. The Soyuz will carry Expedition 16 Comma... More

Baikonur, Kazakhstan -- Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson (middle), Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko (bottom) and Malaysian Spaceflight Participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor wave farewell at the steps of the Soyuz rocket.  The crew launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at sunset Oct. 10, 2007, in their Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft bound for a docking to the International Space Station on Oct. 12. Whitson and Malenchenko will spend six months on the station while Shukor will return to Earth Oct. 21 with two of the Expedition 15 crewmembers currently on the complex.  Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls KSC-07pd2855

Baikonur, Kazakhstan -- Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson (middle)...

Baikonur, Kazakhstan -- Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson (middle), Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko (bottom) and Malaysian Spaceflight Participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor wave farewell ... More

Expedition 19 Soyuz Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 19 Soyuz Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Soyuz rocket is rolled out to the launch pad Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz is scheduled to launch the crew of Expedition 19 and a spaceflight participant on Ma... More

Expedition 20 Landing. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 20 Landing. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka, Flight Engineer Michael Barratt, and spaceflight participant Guy Laliberté near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on S... More

Expedition 25 Soyuz Landing. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 25 Soyuz Landing. NASA public domain image colelction.

Russian Search and Rescue teams and medical personnel help Expedition 25 Commander Doug Wheelock out of the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft shortly after the capsule landed with him, Expedition 25 Flight Engineer Shann... More

jsc2017e043849 (April 14, 2017) --- In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 51 crewmembers Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left) and Jack Fischer of NASA (right) pose for pictures April 14 in front of their Soyuz booster rocket. Fischer and Yurchikhin will launch April 20 on the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft for a four and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center/Andrey Shelepin jsc2017e043849

jsc2017e043849 (April 14, 2017) --- In the Integration Facility at the...

jsc2017e043849 (April 14, 2017) --- In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 51 crewmembers Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left) and Ja... More

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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

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