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Roskosmos

Roskosmos. The Soviet Space Program By Josh Grossman. The Soviet Space Program, often cited as being a triumph of scientific advancement began its’ work on designing and fabricating space-faring craft in full with the launch of the Sputnik program in 1956.

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Roskosmos

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  1. Roskosmos The Soviet Space Program By Josh Grossman

  2. The Soviet Space Program, often cited as being a triumph of scientific advancement began its’ work on designing and fabricating space-faring craft in full with the launch of the Sputnik program in 1956. • The program is credited with launching the first Earth-orbiting satellite, the first animal in Earth orbit, and the first man in space as well as Earth orbit. (Gurney 15) Background

  3. Most rockets used by the Soviet Space Program were fueled by combinations of a liquid rocket fuel and a oxidizer used to ignite the fuel • The most common of these combinations was kerosene and liquid oxygen (Braeunig) What fuels did the Soviet Space Program use?

  4. The SSP used many tactics to keep research and development continuing at the necessary rate, including the following: • Hiring/abducting German scientists who had previously worked on the German WWII V2 rocket program • Using nationalistic pride to encourage civilians to help in the projects • Incredibly high budgets, allowing nearly unlimited resources (Gurney 52) Soviet Research Practices

  5. Operations of the SSP were kept confidential by allowing very limited knowledge of any program details to enter the public consciousness. Very few people were allowed any knowledge of program details, and those with knowledge of specific launches were kept silent until launch success was guaranteed. (Gurney 57) Yuri Gagarin’s space ship, Vostok 1 Secrecy in the Space Program

  6. The SSP is known for many successes, most notably: • First Earth-orbiting satellite, Sputnik • First man in space as well as the first man in Earth orbit, Yuri Gagarin • First animal in Earth orbit, the dog, Laika (Morring) Laika, the first animal in Earth Orbit Successes of the Program

  7. While the SSP is largely considered a triumph of scientific and technical advances, it did fall short in some areas, including: • Failure to put the first man on the moon (Morring) • Military take over of the program • Decentralization of the program to various sub-agencies • The catastrophic failures of the Soviet N1 rocket, due to pogo oscillation (Soviet Space History) Failures of the Program The N1 rocket, notorious for failing each of four trials, most often by thoroughly exploding

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