Cosmonauts
18 dossiers, the anonymous Chief Designer, the women history nearly forgot, and the physicians who charted the body in orbit.
Spacecraft
18 craft, stations and biosatellites, from Vostok and the armed Almaz to Mir and the doomed N1 Moon rocket.
Network
Who built what, who denounced whom, who flew whose spacecraft, 48 people, machines and institutes, 98 documented ties.
Timeline
185 verified events on 22 parallel tracks, world history, the programme, space medicine, secrecy, and every cosmonaut's life. With four guided tours.
Map
50 journeys across half the world, from a Gulag camp in Kolyma to the launch pad at Baikonur, and up into orbit.
On this day
What happened today in the history of the Soviet space age? A fresh moment from the archive, every day.
The Altitude Game
61 questions, from the launch pad to deep space. How far up the ladder, pad, orbit, station, the Moon, will you climb?
The Book
A historical novel of secrecy and intimacy in orbit, and the real, documented history of the Soviet space age behind every page of this site.