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Most of them derived from ballistic missiles originally designed to carry nuclear warheads however some were conceived specifically to deliver cargo into space.
Russian space web. The work on the project was conducted at the okb 1 design bureau led by sergei korolev and responsible for the soviet lunar exploration effort. With the launch of sputnik in 1957 the soviet union opened the space age. In one of several flight scenarios formulated near the end of 1962 and the beginning of 1963 a pair of 21k tankers.
Following a two day trip to the station soyuz ms 14 was scheduled to dock at the mim 2 poisk module a part of the russian segment on august 24 at 08 31 moscow time 1 31 a m. A soyuz 2 1a rocket to launch the soyuz ms 17 spacecraft production no. 747 iss mission 63s from site 31 in baikonur toward the international space station iss.
For the first time in two decades soyuz spacecraft shared the processing room with a 20 ton space station module. In the following decades several generations of the space boosters were developed in the country. The 21k tanker spacecraft would be a part of a four spacecraft system proposed in the early planning of the soviet lunar expedition.