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=__History of the Space program in the Soviet Union__= When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik on October 4,1957 the first satellite to orbit the earth the space age and space race started. After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 they launched many more. They also launched the first piloted space flight around the Earth on April 12,1961. The space program was mainly all military and almost everything they did had to do with the military.

The Soviet Union space program was the first to do many great things. They have and had many important people including Sergei Pavlovich Korolev who help create the first Soviet rocket and spacecraft, Vladimir Nikolayevich Chelomei who was the chief general design in 1955-1984 of OKB-52 also worked on cruise missiles, Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh who played a key role in about every space project until his death, Vasili Pavlovich Mishin who was chief designer of the Korolev and help design the bureau in 1966-1974 and led test flights stages of L1 and N1-L3 the manned lunar programs.

The space program was the USSR which stands for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The space program was a program for space to launch satellites and probes and more in space to find out about space.

This space program occurred in Russia the Soviet Union and in space. The program start in the middle of the 1900’s and still is going to day. But today there is no Soviet Union, now it is Russia. This was important for many reasons; the Soviet Union made lots of discoveries about space, made the first satellite Sputnik, and had the first manned space flight. They played a key role in space.

Sputnik 1 was only the size of a basketball and weighed 183 pounds. It took 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on it elliptical path. Sputnik 1 was the world's first artificial satellite in that it was the first human-made object to orbit the Earth. It was not the first artificial object above given border of space.

Sputnik 2 was launched on November 3, 1957and carried the first living passenger which was a dog. The dog was named Laika. The mission planners did not provide the safe return of the spacecraft or Laika. Laika died a few hours after launch. Although Laika did not survive the trip, the experiment proved that a living passenger could survive being launched into orbit.

The space program in the Soviet Union has been very important. They have done amazing things for space. They have explored many things. They may have not been the first to walk on the moon but the first to launch a satellite and lunch the first manned space flight. This is a topic is good to learn about and it is good that we our.

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