ContributorNetwork – The Soviet, then Russian, space program was born of Cold War competition. After the fall of the Soviet Union, it became the last vestige of Russia as a super power, a shadow of its former self. Here are some highlights. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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A Brief Timeline of the Soviet/Russian Manned Space Program (ContributorNetwork)
A brief encounter with a Space Shuttle
The late sixties and the early seventies saw a flurry of activity at the NASA headquarters as various manned missions to the moon were executed one after the other. Christopher Freville reasons that the race to the moon was basically triggered by the Cold War between the US and the former Soviet Union. Their...
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A Brief Introduction to Telescopes
What’s a telescope? Generally speaking, a telescope is a device that magnifies the degree of visibility of far away objects, making these objects more amenable to observation. The telescope was first used by the early astronomers to observe the sky, and to discover new celestial bodies. Telescopes were instrumental in the advancement of science...
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