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Did Sputnik 1 tell us more than "beep"? What science was improved by information gained from its orbiting the Earth?
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial satellite launched by humans to orbit the Earth.
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Sputnik had just one single job: Prove its existence by sending a simple "beep" ...
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Is there any work in English that gives a systematic treatment of Soviet/Russian rocket engines?
There seems to be some piecemeal information online such as RussianSpaceWeb.com, and of course, Sutton's History of LPRE gives an anthropological treatment of Soviet/Russian rocket engine lineup ...
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Does the depiction of water blobs in the Salut-7 movie reflect an actual event?
In the beginning of the very cool Veritassium video The Bizarre Behavior of Rotating Bodies, Explained, the host Derek Muller says:
In 1985, cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov was tasked with saving ...
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Luna 15 - Any official confirmation of objectives?
Russia's Luna 15 crashed into the lunar surface shortly after Apollo 11 landed.
It's widely considered a failed sample return mission, but did Russia ever officially announce that sample return was ...
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