... of the Russian space programme has hit a number of rough patches, including funding issues for the new Vostok Cosmodrome, and spotty rocket performance on unmanned missions. Still, the new deal between NASA and Roscosmos...
... person to reach space. Titov was nearly 26 years old when he became the second man in space on the Vostok 2 orbital mission in August 1961. Currently taking a gap year before starting studies at the University of Utrecht, Daeman...
... the time of astronomy (and astrology). After that came Space 2.0, when the space race saw launches of Vostok and Apollo. The International Space Station was built during Space 3.0, the same era when international...
... to include the main Soyuz variants (7K, T, TM, TMA, etc) in separate chapters, prefaced by a historical introduction and a chapter on Vostok and Voskhod (forerunners of the Soyuz). It might seem like ‘padding’ to include these 45 pages that aren...