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Soyuz (Cyrillic: `Союз`) is Russian for `Union`, and was often used as an abbreviation for the `Union of Soviet Socialist Republics` (Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik) during the Communist era. The Soyuz spacecraft is now the main vehicle used in missions and crew transfers to and from the ISS since NASA retired the Space S...
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[rocket family] After the U.S. Space Shuttle program ended in 2011, Soyuz rockets became the only provider of transport for astronauts at the International Space Station. The Soyuz vehicles are used as the launcher for the manned Soyuz spacecraft as part of the Soyuz program, as well as to launch unmanned Progress supply spacecraft to the I...
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[spacecraft] Soyuz (Сою́з, IPA), Union) is a series of spacecraft designed for the Soviet space programme by the Korolyov Design Bureau in the 1960s that remains in service today. The Soyuz succeeded the Voskhod spacecraft and was originally built as part of the Soviet Manned Lunar programme. The Soyuz spacecraft is launched on a Soyuz...
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any of several versions of Soviet/Russian manned spacecraft launched since 1967 and the longest-serving manned-spacecraft design in use. Originally ... [13 related articles]
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A series of manned Russian spacecraft, in use longer than any other; it is carried into orbit by the Soyuz launch vehicle. Designed during the Space Race era, Soyuz first carried a cosmonaut in April 1967. Since then the original Soyuz (`union”) craft and its subsequent generations – the Soyuz...
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Soyuz was the Soviet manned space programme that started in the 1960's. Soyuz 1 was launched in April 1967 carrying colonel Vladimir Komarov with the object of checking the craft's systems and elements in conditions of spaceflight and to conduct related experiments. During re-entry the parachute cords became entangled resulting in the parachute fai...
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