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Secret Dawn - Among the Stars - Archive Index

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Dossiers (18)

Alexei Leonov

First human to walk in space (Voskhod 2, 1965); artist-cosmonaut and commander of the Apol

Boris Chertok

Deputy chief designer for control systems at OKB-1; author of 'Rockets and People', the great insider ch

Boris Yegorov

First physician in space (Voskhod 1, 1964); a medical doctor who studied the vestibular sy

Konstantin Feoktistov

Engineer-cosmonaut who designed Voskhod and Soyuz and flew on Voskhod 1; a rare civilian i

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Deaf schoolteacher and self-taught theorist; derived the rocket equation and the philosoph

Nikolai Kamanin

Air-force general who selected and commanded the cosmonaut corps; his secret diaries recor

Oleg Gazenko

Physiologist who prepared the dog Laika, led the Institute of Biomedical Problems, and bui

Sergei Korolev

The anonymous 'Chief Designer' of Sputnik, Vostok and Soyuz; a Gulag survivor who ran the

Svetlana Savitskaya

Second woman in space and first woman to walk in space (Salyut 7, 1984); test pilot and wo

Valentin Glushko

Master of the Soviet rocket engine; Korolev's rival and denouncer, later head of NPO Energ

Valentina Ponomaryova

Rocket-engine engineer and the only pilot of the 1962 female cosmonaut group; back-up for Tereshkova, she wait

Valentina Tereshkova

First woman in space (Vostok 6, 1963); a textile worker and amateur parachutist chosen fro

Valeri Polyakov

Physician-cosmonaut who spent 437 days 17 hours 58 minutes aboard Mir (1994-95), the longest single s

Vasily Parin

Physiologist and academician, responsible for the medical side of Soviet crewed flight from 1956 to 1971 and a director of the IBMP; imprison

Viktor Savinykh

Engineer-cosmonaut who, with Dzhanibekov, boarded and revived the dead, frozen Salyut 7 in

Vladimir Chelomei

Designer of the Proton rocket and of the military Almaz stations flown as 'Salyut'; Korole

Yelena Kondakova

Engineer-cosmonaut; among the first women to make a long-duration flight (Mir, 1994-95) an

Yuri Gagarin

First human in space (12 April 1961); a global icon whose fame outran the secret machine t

Machines & systems (18)

Oazis / Svet greenhouses

The orbital greenhouses of the space stations

Progress

The automated freighter behind long expeditions

Cosmonaut biosensor suite

Wearable monitors telemetering the body from orbit

Zond (L1)

The circumlunar craft meant to beat Apollo to the Moon

Kvant / Mir modules

The add-on modules that grew Mir into a complex

Almaz / OPS

Chelomei's armed military reconnaissance station

Bion

Biosatellites carrying animals and cells

Energia-Buran

The Soviet shuttle system; one flight, then cancelled

Mir

The first modular, permanently crewed station

N1

The failed Moon rocket; Korolev's lost giant

Proton

Chelomei's heavy launcher, still flying

R-7 / Semyorka

First ICBM; ancestor of every crewed Soviet launcher

Salyut

The first space stations, civil and (secretly) military

Soyuz

The workhorse crew ferry, flying since 1967

Sputnik 2 (Laika)

First living creature in orbit

TKS

Heavy transport/return craft; ancestor of the station modules

Voskhod

Multi-crew ship; first EVA and first physician in orbit

Vostok

Gagarin's and Tereshkova's spacecraft

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