Soviet space program

The Soviet space program was the state space program of the Soviet Union, active from 1951 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Formed 1951

Country Soviet Union

Operator Soviet space program

Operator Soviet space program

Venera 7 ... was a Soviet spacecraft, part of the Venera series of probes to Venus.

Initially, the station was operated by NPO Energia with subcontracting to KB Salyut.

Sputnik is a name for multiple spacecraft launched under the Soviet space program.

The Vostok 3KA space capsule was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 12 April 1961, with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard

It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program.

was a series of space probes developed by the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1984 to gather information about the planet Venus

Operator Soviet space program

was the first space station programme, undertaken by the Soviet Union

was a series of robotic spacecraft missions sent to the Moon by the Soviet Union between 1959 and 1976

Apollo-Soyuz was the first crewed international space mission, conducted jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union in July 1975.

was a space station operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, first by the Soviet Union and later by the Russian Federation

It was designed for the Soviet space program by the Korolev Design Bureau