Soviet Space Dogs by Olesya Turkina FUEL Publishing 2014, 240 pages, 5.0 x 0.9 x 8.1 inches, Hardcover ...
Shepherd’s MK IV – Custom variant of the MK IV suit, used by Alan Shepard. ・Soviet SK-1 – Worn by Yuri Gagarin, the first ...
It wasn’t a space walk—like the one ... spacecraft’s life support system. The suit itself doesn’t need to carry support gear.
The Soviets had even built a prototype moon suit, called the Krechet ("Golden ... ranging from cannons to laser guns into space. In 1974, the Soviet Union launched the Salyut 3 space station ...
On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and ... colour for maximum propaganda effect), his suit ballooned when no longer constrained ...
On display there are the 400-kilogram ejector seat, space suit and 40-kilogram blue ventilation ... Her father was killed during the Soviet Finnish war in 1939. In 1960 she graduated from a ...
It was the beginning of the space age: the launch by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite. With the Soviet Union and the US locked in an ...
November 3 marks 67 years since the Soviet Union sent Laika the dog to orbit the Earth on its Sputnik 2 mission. We recall ...