Interkosmos was an international Soviet space program designed to promote cooperation among socialist countries in space exploration and research. Formed in April 1967 in Moscow, it was led by the Soviet Union and primarily involved allied or friendly countries from the Eastern Bloc and the Non-Aligned Movement, which were provided training and technical support for crewed and uncrewed space missions.
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Agency TypeMultinational Soviet-led intergovernmental space cooperation program coordinating crewed and uncrewed missions among Eastern Bloc and allied non-aligned countries, not a single national space agency 1 Founded Year Headquarters Open Questions
Annual BudgetNot disclosed
Historical multinational program with no single published budget figure; program effectively ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Connections
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Source Rakesh Sharma - Wikipedia
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Interkosmos (Wikipedia)
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Formed in April 1967 in Moscow, it was led by the Soviet Union and primarily involved allied or friendly countries from the Eastern Bloc and Non-Aligned Movement, which were provided training and technical support with crewed and uncrewed space missions.
Valery Kubasov - Wikipedia
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Valery Nikolaevich Kubasov (Russian: Вале́рий Никола́евич Куба́сов; 7 January 1935-19 February 2014) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut who flew on two missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 19 (the Apollo-Soyuz mission), and commanded Soyuz 36 in the Intercosmos programme.
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Valery Nikolaevich Kubasov (Russian: Вале́рий Никола́евич Куба́сов; 7 January 1935-19 February 2014) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut who flew on two missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 19 (the Apollo-Soyuz mission), and commanded Soyuz 36 in the Intercosmos programme.
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He became the first Vietnamese cosmonaut, and the first person of Asian origin to be in space when he was launched aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Interkosmos research cosmonaut.
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He became the first Vietnamese cosmonaut, and the first person of Asian origin to be in space when he was launched aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Interkosmos research cosmonaut.
View the SourceRakesh Sharma - Wikipedia
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On 20 September 1982, he was selected for space travel as part of a joint programme between the IAF and the Soviet Interkosmos space agency.
Muhammed Faris - Wikipedia
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He specialized in navigation when he was selected to participate in the Interkosmos spaceflight program on 30 September 1985.
Vladimír Remek
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As the first flight of the Soviet space program's Interkosmos, he was the first space traveller from a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States.
Sigmund Jähn
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He was the first German to fly into space as part of the Soviet Union's Interkosmos program in 1978.
Bertalan Farkas - Wikipedia
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In 1978 he volunteered to become a cosmonaut and was selected as part of the fifth international programme for Interkosmos.
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez
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In 1978 he was selected to join the Intercosmos program and moved to Star City, Russia for his training as a cosmonaut.
Georgi Ivanov (cosmonaut) (Wikipedia)
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He was selected to participate in the Soviet International Space Programme Interkosmos in 1978
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