Throughout the Space Race, amateur radio operators from all over the world attempted to eavesdrop on American and Soviet ...

“Listen! Listen! Talk to me! I am hot!…oxygen…oxygen…am I going to crash?” For several decades, these chilling words, which screeched through a makeshift ...

Introduction -- The Birth of the Cosmonaut: "Real Cosmonaut Lives" as a Guide to Youth, the Nation, and the World -- The Women: The Collison of Expectations in Domestic and International Politics -- ...

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The cosmonaut training centre : birth and growth -- Simulators -- Other national and international facilities -- Survival training -- The cosmonaut group of the RGNII TsPK -- The cosmonaut group of ...

Canine cosmonaut Laika rests comfortably inside the Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 before being blasted into orbit in 1957.Credit ...