Russian and Soviet rocket scientist, pioneer of the astronautic theory and science-fiction writer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. A shot from a film.01.04.1932#2318277
Academician Oleg Glazenko showing the four-legged cosmonauts Strelka (left) and Belka at a news conference on the flight of an orbiter with test animals. 01.10.1960#16739
Hero of the Soviet Union and Pilot-Cosmonaut of the U.S.S.R. Yuri Gagarin (left) and Twice Hero of Socialist Labor, Lenin Prize holder and Academician Sergei Korolev.27.05.1961#98803
Yury Gagarin (1934-1968), Soviet cosmonaut and first man in space, driving through London, UK, in an open-top car. Gagarin made the first manned space flight on 12 April 1961. He orbited the Earth once in the Vostok 1 spacecraft, a flight that lasted 1 hour and 48 minutes. Gagarin became a hero in the Soviet Union and famous worldwide. He later returned to active service as a test pilot, dying in a crash during a training flight in 1968. His ashes were interred with full military honors in the Kremlin Wall. Photographed in July 1961.11.07.1961#898852
Cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin (left) and Valentina Tereshkova (right), Heroes of the Soviet Union.24.11.1963#6521
Members of the Voskhod-2 spaceship crew Belyaev and Leonov (right) being interviewed upon landing. 21.03.1965#16371
Soviet space pilots Yuri Gagarin (right) and Gherman Titov (center) return to Moscow after Yuri Gagarin's first ever space flight.09.08.1961#6487
Alexei Leonov, Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR, leaving Voskhod 2 spacecraft to take his first step into space. March 18-19, 1965. Reproduction of a book photo.18.03.1965#844594
Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin heading toward the Baikonur space center in a bus. April 12, 1961.12.04.1961#75199
The Soyuz-Apollo Soviet-U.S. space crew after docking, July 1975. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, center, and astronauts Thomas Stafford and Donald (Deke) Slayton.17.07.1975#139614
Participants Soviet-American Soyuz-Apollo joint space flight, from left: Commander of the Apollo spacecraft Thomas Stafford, head of Soviet cosmonaut training, Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR Vladimir Shatalov, Commander of the Soyuz-19 spacecraft, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR Alexei Leonov. A return US visit by the Soyuz-19 crew members under the ASTP program.01.10.1975#877509
Soyuz TMA-2 spaceship being launched from the Baikonur space center toward the Internaitonal Space Station. The seventh long-term Russian-US expedition: commander Yury Malenchenko and flight engineer Edward Lu--are to replace the station dwellers Nikolai Budarin (Russia), Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox (USA) and keep the ISS operational for the next six months.27.04.2003#175985
Reproduction of the photo taken from the spaceship Soyuz T-13 by Soviet cosmonauts V. Dzhanibekov and G. Grechko. Orbital station "Salyut-7" and spaceship "Soyuz T-14".01.01.1986#489669
The Salyut-7 space station and the Soyuz T-14 spacecraft. Photo taken by cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Georgy Grechko from the Soyuz T-13 spacecraft.12.11.1986#159260
Boost rocket with interplanet station Lunar-9 with was the first to accomplish a soft landing on the Lunar surface and transmitt a video of the planet to the Earth.01.03.1972#470962
Mars-3 orbiter, a Soviet automatic interplanetary station of KA Mars series designed to study Mars both from its orbit and surface, for which it had a descent module. Developed by Lavochkin Research and Production Association.01.12.1971#498767
Final preparations for international Vega project under which two soviet automatic stations will fly to Venus and Galley's comet.01.01.1984#498982
In the Soviet Mission Control Center near Moscow during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.17.07.1975#497270
A high-definition photo of Mars made by the Soviet unmanned landers Mars-2 and Mars-3. 02.01.1972#188498
The U.S.S.R. Pilot-Cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union Svetlana Savitskaya in outer space. The Soyuz T-12 spaceship in orbit.25.07.1984#17514
Vladimir Kovalyonok, the commander of spaceship Soyuz-29, seen in protective suit before practicing in neutral buoyancy pool at Yu. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.01.01.1978#431666
Roskosmos Cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Yury Malenchenko performing extravehicular activities on February 3, 2016.08.02.2016#2787363
Representatives of Moscow's children, youth and public organizations lay flowers at the monument to Yuri Gagarin on the square named after him in Moscow.12.04.2013#1443834
An Antonov An-225 Mriya [Dream] Cossack cargo jet with the Buran [Snow Storm] reusable space shuttle on external store flies from the Baikonur space center to Kiev to further proceed to the Le Bourget aerospace show near Paris.19.05.1989#500928
Assembling the first satellite to be launched from the Earth. A still from the documentary film "The Soviets in Space." 08.02.1969#159264
Roskosmos space agency cosmonaut on-board engineer Sergei Ryazansky, ISS Expedition 52/53 primary crew member, during a spacesuit check ahead of the launch of the Soyuz MS-05 manned spacecraft.28.07.2017#3161218
The cabin of Vostok-1 spaceship in which Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin made world's first space flight on April 12, 1961.01.11.1970#629400
The Soyuz-FG rocket carrying the Soyuz-MS manned spacecraft is set onto the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.04.07.2016#2886426
A worker during the final assembly operations on the Soyuz-FG booster and Soyuz-TMA 19M spaceship and preparations for moving them to the launch pad.12.12.2015#2757000
The Soyuz-FG rocket carrying the Soyuz MS-08 crewed spacecraft is installed on a launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.19.03.2018#3323611
The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft is lifted on the launchpad, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, October 9, 2018. Russian spacecraft Soyuz MS-10 carrying International Space Station (ISS) crew of Roskosmos cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin, of Russia, and NASA astronaut Nick Hague, of the United States, will be blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on October 11.09.10.2018#5661386
The Soyuz-FG rocket carrying the Soyuz MS-08 crewed spacecraft moved to a launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.19.03.2018#3323603
Member of Expedition 49/50 to the International Space Station Sergei Ryzhikov (Roscosmos) before the launch of the Soyuz MS-02 manned spacecraft from the Baikonur space launch center.19.10.2016#2958935
The launch of the Soyuz-FG carrier rocket with the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft from the Baikonur Space Center.21.03.2018#5459860
Instructors Ignat Ignatov and Maxim Zaytsev conduct a demo training under modeled weightlessness in the hydro lab of the Yuri Gagarin Astronaut Training Center in Zvyozdny Gorodok (Starry Town).18.02.2011#864528
Employees of the Mission Control Center during the orbiting, approach and docking of the Soyuz MS-04 with the ISS.20.04.2017#3078104
NASA astronaut Jack D.Fisher and Roscosmos cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin during a press conference ahead of the launch of the Soyuz MC-04 spacecraft from the Baikonur Space Centre.20.04.2017#3078017
Transportation of Soyuz-9 spacecraft with its launch vehicle. Baikonur space center.22.04.1971#498748
Pre-launch preparation: iInstallation of boost rocket and spaceship Soyuz-9. Cosmodrome Baikonur.01.05.1970#498476
The Soyuz-FG launch vehicle with the Soyuz MS-06 manned crew transfer vehicle is erected on the launch pad of the first "Gagarin's Start" launch site at Baikonur Cosmodrome.10.09.2017#3189911
The Soyuz-FG carrier rocket and the Soyuz MS-05 piloted spacecraft transferred to Site No. 1 (Gagarin's Start) at the Baikonur space center.26.07.2017#3159615
Father Sergius blessing the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle with the Soyuz MS-04 manned spacecraft at Baikonur Launch Center before the start of the next expedition to the International Space Station.19.04.2017#3076962
The launch of the Soyuz ТМА-14 rocket carrying the prime crew of the 41/42 International Space Station expedition, Baikonur Cosmodrome.26.09.2014#2499047
A Soyuz-FG launch vehicle with the Soyuz TMA-19M manned spacecraft lifts off from the Baikonur Space Center.15.12.2015#2759090
The launch of Soyuz-FG carrier rocket with Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft from Baikonur space center.20.04.2017#3078455
The Soyuz FG rocket carrying the Soyuz MS-04 manned spacecraft is moved to Gagarin's Start launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome.17.04.2017#3075828
A Soyuz-ST-B rocket is moved from its assembly building to its launch pad at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. The Russian-built Soyuz rocket carrying four O3b satellites is scheduled to be launched by Arianespace for the global satellite operator SES on April 4.01.04.2019#5835120
The launch of Soyuz-FG carrier rocket with Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft from the Baikonur space center.20.04.2017#3078513
Security guards seen as the Soyuz FG rocket carrying the Soyuz MS-04 manned spacecraft is moved to Gagarin's Start launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome.17.04.2017#3075863
The launch of Soyuz-FG carrier rocket with Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft from the Baikonur space center.20.04.2017#3078067
The landing of Soyuz TMA-18M capsule carrying the year-long mission crew members, Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Korniyenko, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and member of the long-term expedition 45/46 to the ISS Sergei Volkov. (Photo courtesy of the Russian Federal Space Agency's Press Service.)02.03.2016#2800380
The descending capsule of the Soyuz TMA-09M spaceship commanded by Roscosmos cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin during the landing.11.11.2013#2317883
The Soyuz MS-05 manned spacecraft observed in the sky of Novosibirsk after being launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.28.07.2017#3161365
Soyuz-FG launch vehicle with the Soyuz MS-02 manned spacecraft starts from the Baikonur space launch center.19.10.2016#2958954
