History and Development of the Interkosmos program -- First to fly : Czechoslovakia's cosmonaut -- From Poland to Salyut-6 -- Sigmund Jähn and Soyuz-30 -- Bulgaria in space -- Hungary joins the space ...

After Yuri Gagarin and John Glenn were rocketed into space in the early 1960s: The two world superpowers, in effect, turned outer space into their personal fiefdom. For almost 15 years, only U.S. and ...

Interkosmos is a musical documentary-style film about the East German space program-a program with the energy and creativity of the Soviet arts scene of the 1920s and a bit of the hippie sensibility ...

Faris launched aboard Soyuz TM-3 to the Mir space station as part of the Soviet Union's Interkosmos program. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Raksha Sharma is an Indian astronaut and a former Indian Air Force officer, known as the first and only Indian citizen to travel into space. While there have been other astronauts of Indian origin, ...

If you Google “the first Black person in space” the immediate results will point you to NASA astronaut Guion Stewart Bluford Jr. In 1983, onboard the space shuttle Challenger, he voyaged to the cosmos ...

For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.