TASS/. In creating its own national spaceship Gaganyaan India turned to the Soyuz family of Russian spacecraft for inspiration, the first Indian cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union Rakesh Sharma ...

October 24, 1960 - The first space-related fatalities occur when a rocket explodes at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, killing 165 people, including Air Marshal Mitrofan I.

The Artemis Accords and ILRS are currently not legally binding, but they will be influential in shaping space governance in ...

Additionally, Addleton says, due to its remoteness and the fact Mongolia never joined the Warsaw Pact -- the Soviet Union’s equivalent of NATO -- the country “never entered into the popular ...

The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked the end of an era in Indo-Soviet space collaboration. However, the legacy of the USSR's contributions to ISRO continues to influence India's ...

Malaysian Journal of Syariah and Law, Vol. 12, Issue. 2, p. 375. Church-state relations have undergone a number of changes during the seven decades of the existence of the Soviet Union. In the 1920s ...

The space flight earned him the title of The Hero of the Soviet Union. At the end of April 1961 ... 1967 while returning after a test flight on the Soyuz-1 spacecraft. Gagarin was not destined ...

There were a number of reasons why the Soviet Union and the USA became interested in lessening tensions in the 1960s and 1970s: President Nixon was keen to improve relations with China as well as ...