Soviet space program
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organisatie uit Sovjet-Unie
Key facts
- Dissolved
- December 1, 1991
- Manager
- Sergei Korolev (1951–66) Vasily Mishin (1966–74) Valentin Glushko (1974–89)
- Key people
- Design Bureaus
- Primary spaceport
- Baikonur Cosmodrome Plesetsk Cosmodrome
- First flight
- Sputnik 1 , (October 4, 1957)
- First crewed flight
- Vostok 1 , (April 12, 1961)
- Last crewed flight
- Soyuz TM-13 , (October 2, 1991)
- Successes
- See accomplishments
- Failures
- See failures below
- Partial failures
- See partial or cancelled projects , Soviet lunar program
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