Sentences with phrase «soviet space programme»

But the space race was two nations pushing each other to greater achievements and the Soviet space programme doesn't get as much attention as its US counterpart.

Moving west into the great Eurasian steppe, there's the UNESCO site of Turkistan and, in the middle of absolute nowhere, the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the launchpad for the Soviet space programme.

The items on offer have stunned Western specialists who, for years, have tried to piece together details of the Soviet space programme from sketchy Tass dispatches and other fragments of information.

He pointed out that Ukraine played a part in the Soviet space programme.

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With only 100 shopping days till Christmas, space enthusiasts might like to start saving for a trip to New York, where more than 250 artefacts from the Soviet Union's pioneering space programme will go under the hammer at Sotheby's in December.

The story of the rocket scientists sequestered for the Soviet and US space programmes has become familiar.

The crumbling remains of the Soviet Unions space programme.

Two revolutionary events took place in 20th - century Russia that changed the way we look at the world: the emergence of non-objective art and the founding of the Soviet Union's space programme.

Two revolutionary events took place in 20th century Russia that changed the way we look at the world: the emergence of non-objective art and the founding of the Soviet Union's space programme.

Dmitry Gorin's lecture Holiday Revolution and experience of history in Soviet culture: from avant - garde to socialist realism (related to the programme «Expanding Space.