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Lunar orbital station, LOS

• Search for A-4 technology in Poland
• Search for A-4 technology in Germany
• German team in Moscow
• German team on Gorodomlya Island

French rocketry

• Origins of the French rocketry
• Precious stones series of rockets

American rocketry

• 48
• A-1
• A-2
• A-3
• A-4
• A-4b
• A-9/A-10
• ACRV
• ACTS
• Almaz
• Almaz-T
• Angara (rocket)
• Angara-3
• Angara-7
• Angara-100
• ARD
• ATV
• AUOS
• Baikal (rocket)
• Baikonur
• BelKA
• Buran
• Clipper (see Kliper)
• Columbus
• Compass
• COROT
• Cosmos-1 (solar sail)
• Cosmos-2 (rocket)
• Cosmos-3 (rocket)
• Diamant (rocket)
• Dnepr
• Docking Module (Mir)
• Docking Compartment (ISS)
• Energia
• Enterprise (ISS)
• Express
• FGB
• FGB-2 (ISS)
• Fi 103
• Foton
• Fregat
• Gorizont
• Hs-293
• IS (ASAT)
• Iskander
• ISS (International Space Station)
• Kapustin Yar
• KazSat
• Kliper
• Koronas-Foton
• Kosmoplan
• Kourou
• Kristall
• Kummersdorf
• Kvant
• Kvant-2
• L3 (spacecraft)
• LKS
• LOS
• Luna
• Lunar base
• M-12
• M-48 (see: 48)
• Mars
• Martian expedition
• Meridian
• Mir
• MP-1
• MR-UR-100
• N1
• Naryad
• NEP (ISS)
• OPSEK
• Parom
• Phobos-Grunt
• Pioneer
• Plesetsk
• PPTS
• Priroda
• Progress
• Progress M-58
• Progress M-01M
• Progress retrievable
• Proton (rocket)
• R-1
• R-2
• R-3
• R-5
• R-7
• R-8
• R-9
• R-12
• R-13
• R-14
• R-16
• R-17
• R-21
• R-27
• R-29
• R-36
• R-36M
• R-36M UTTKh
• R-36M-2
• R-56
• Raduga
• Raduga-1
• Raketoplan
• RD-0146
• Resurs-DK
• Rockot
• RT-1
• RT-2
• RT-20P
• Salyut
• Salyut-2
• Salyut-3
• Salyut-5
• Scud (see R-17)
• Soyuz (rocket)
• Soyuz-1
• Soyuz-2 (rocket)
• Soyuz-2-3 (rocket)
• Soyuz-3 (rocket)
• Soyuz (spacecraft)
• Soyuz TM-32
• Soyuz TM-33
• Soyuz TM-34
• Soyuz TMA-1
• Soyuz TMA-2
• Soyuz TMA-3
• Soyuz TMA-4
• Soyuz TMA-5
• Soyuz TMA-6
• Soyuz TMA-7
• Soyuz TMA-8
• Soyuz TMA-9
• Soyuz TMA-10
• Soyuz TMA-11
• Soyuz TMA-12
• Soyuz TMA-13
• Soyuz TMA-14
• Soyuz TMA-15
• Soyuz TMA-16
• Spektr
• Spiral
• Sputnik (rocket)
• Sputnik
• Sputnik-2
• Sputnik-3
• Start (rocket)
• Strela
• Svobodny
• TKS
• TKS follow-on
• Topol-M
• Tselina
• Tsyklon (rocket)
• UR-100
• UR-100N
• UR-200
• UR-500
• UR-700
• Uragan
• US-A/US-P
• V-2 (see A-4)
• Venera
• Vostok
• Zarya (see FGB)
• Zenit (rocket)

• L3
• LK
• LOK
• Plans for a permanent lunar base

Soyuz

• History
  • Overview of the Soyuz spacecraft development history
• Mods
• Soyuz TM
• Hardware
• Systems overview
• Reentry capsule
• Instrument module
• Habitation module
• Flight profile
• Emergency escape system of the Soyuz spacecraft
• Missions
  • Soyuz-1

• The TKS heavy transport ship

• OPS-1 (Salyut-2);
• OPS-2 (Salyut-3);
• OPS-3 (Salyut-5);
• OPS-4;

• Core module
• Kvant-1
• Kvant-2
• Kristall
• Spektr
• Priroda
• Docking module

International Space Station (ISS)

US roots of the ISS

• Assured Crew Return Vehicle, ACRV

ISS development

Russian segment of the ISS

• FGB
• Zvezda Service Module
• NEP
• Docking Compartment
• Enterprise
• FGB-2

European segment of the ISS

• Columbus laboratory module
• Automated Transfer Vehicle, ATV
  • ATV development history
  • ATV design
  • ATV-1 Jules Verne mission
  • Possible future configurations of the ATV vehicle
• Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator, ARD

ISS mission chronology

Future missions to the ISS

Soyuz missions to the ISS

• Soyuz TM-32 mission (Dennis Tito's mission to the ISS)
• Soyuz TM-33 mission (A Russo-French commercial mission)
• Soyuz TM-34 mission (A Russo-Italian commercial mission)
• Soyuz TMA-1 mission (A Russo-Belgian commercial mission)
• Soyuz TMA-2 mission (The 7th long-duration expedition to the ISS)
• Soyuz TMA-3 mission (The 8th long-duration expedition to the ISS)
• Soyuz TMA-4 mission (The 9th long-duration expedition to the ISS)
• Soyuz TMA-5 mission (The 10th long-duration expedition to the ISS)
• Soyuz TMA-6 mission (The 11th long-duration expedition to the ISS)
• Soyuz TMA-7 mission (The 12th long-duration expedition to the ISS)
• Soyuz TMA-8 mission (The 13th long-duration expedition to the ISS)
• Soyuz TMA-9 mission (The 14th long-duration expedition to the ISS)
• Soyuz TMA-10 mission (The 15th long-duration expedition to the ISS)
• Soyuz TMA-11 mission (The 16th long-duration expedition to the ISS)
• Soyuz TMA-12 mission (The 17th long-duration expedition to the ISS)
• Soyuz TMA-13 mission (The 18th long-duration expedition to the ISS)
• Soyuz TMA-14 mission (The 19th long-duration expedition to the ISS)
• Soyuz TMA-15 mission (The 20th long-duration expedition to the ISS)

Kliper, a potential replacement for the Soyuz spacecraft (abstract page)

• Circumlunar version of the Kliper spacecraft
• The 2006 configuration
• Kliper development history
• International cooperation in the Kliper project
• Crew cabin of the Kliper spacecraft
• Fuselage
• Habitation and propulsion module of the Kliper spacecraft
• Kliper photo gallery
• Parom orbital tug

A follow-on to the TKS spacecraft

Advanced Crew Transportation System, ACTS

• ACTS concept
• Initial ACTS studies
• Choosing ACTS architecture
• PPTS project
  • Development of the landing system for the PPTS spacecraft

NEW, July 3: OPSEK

Lunar Orbital Station, LOS

NASA's Space Exploration Initiative, SEI

• Unmanned missions to the Moon
• Unmanned missions to Mars
  • Phobos-Grunt
    • Preparing Phobos-Grunt mission
• Unmanned missions to Venus

  • Venera-9 and 10

• Plans for unmanned missions to planets

• Almaz-T radar-carrying satellite
• Araks spacecraft
• IS anti-satellite system
• Meridian communications satellite
• Naryad anti-satellite system
• Raduga comsat
• Raduga-1 comsat
• Tselina electronic intelligence spacecraft
• Uragan navigation satellite
• US-A and US-P ocean surveillance and missile guidance spacecraft

Communications satellites

• Express comsat
• Gorizont comsat
• KazSat comsat

• AUOS spacecraft bus
• COROT astronomy satellite of the French space agency, CNES, launched by the Russian Soyuz-2.1b rocket
• Compass
• Cosmos-1 solar sailing spacecraft
• Foton
• Koronas-Foton

• Energia-Buran facility

  • History of the Buran launch facilities
  • Site 110
  • Site 112
  • Site 250
  • Site 251
  • Site 254
• Proton facilities
• R-9 facilities
• R-36 facilities
• R-36M facilities
• Residential area at Site 10
• Baikonur downrange
• Road to Baikonur
• Soyuz launch facility
  • Site 1
  • Site 2
  • Site 31
• Tsyklon launch facilities
• Zenit launch facilities

PEOPLE (section home)

Scientists and engineers

• Chelomei
• Kibalchich
• Korolev
• Lozino-Lozinskiy
• Mishin
• Semenov
• Severin
• Tikhonravov
• Tsiolkovsky
  • Tsiolkovsky's early life
  • Tsiolkovsky's work in Kaluga
  • Tsiolkovsky and Bolshevism
  • Legacy of Tsiolkovsky

Politicians

• Reagan

CHRONOLOGY (section home)

Moon race

Missile race

Chronology of deep space exploration

Space exploration in the 20th century

Space exploration in the 21st century

Russian space program in 2000-2010

• Space exploration in 2001
• Space exploration in 2003
• Space exploration in 2004
  • Security 2004 military exercise
• Paris Air and Space Show in Le Bourget 2005
• Space exploration in 2006
• Space exploration in 2007
• Space exploration in 2008
  • ILA-2008, Berlin air and space show
• Space exploration in 2009
• Space exploration in 2010
• Space exploration in 2011
• Space exploration in 2012
• Space exploration in 2013
• Space exploration in 2014

Critique of Bush's space plan

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