Russian Space Program
As it has evolved over the years the soviet space program might be described as something with a dual personality.
Russian space program. The soviet space program was the national space program of the union of soviet socialist republics active from the 1930s until the state s collapse in 1991. The soviet union s first crewed space program on oct. He has been critical of the program in the.
The roscosmos state corporation for space activities note 1 commonly known as roscosmos is a state corporation of the russian federation responsible for space flights cosmonautics programs and aerospace research. Many of the design bureaus that had dominated space and aerospace design were either shut down or reconstituted as private corporations. While the other moves in a sort of shadow land and is cloaked in high secrecy.
The soviet union s space program was mainly based on the cosmonautic exploration of space and the development of the expendable launch vehicles which had been split between many design bureaus competing against each other. That is it consists of two parts one of which is highly visible and acceptable to the world public. The soviet space program faced interesting times as union began to crumble in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
A jackal and hyde so to speak. It initially began as the russian space agency which was established on february 25 1992 note 2 and restructured in 1999 and 2004 as the russ. Originating from the soviet space program founded in the 1930s roscosmos emerged following the dissolution of the soviet union in 1991.
12 1964 the soviet union launched the first multiperson mission voskhod 1 which launched three russian cosmonauts into. Instead of the soviet space agency mir and its soviet cosmonauts who became russian citizens when the country changed came under the aegis of roscosmos the newly formed russian space agency.