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The Soviet space programme had no single civil agency like NASA. The key projects of the early era came from the OKB-1 design bureau led by Sergei Korolev: the R-7 rocket, Sputnik 1, and the Vostok, Voskhod, and Soyuz spacecraft. After the USSR dissolved, coordination passed to the Russian Space Agency (1992), which became today’s Roscosmos state corporation.
In this encyclopedia the node is the shared context for the first milestones of the Space Age, for the Soyuz family that still flies today, and for unfinished projects such as N1 and Buran. Russia remains a partner in the International Space Station, where the Russian segment provides propulsion and part of the life support.
Key context
- Sputnik 1 (1957) and Vostok 1 with Gagarin (1961) came from OKB-1 and launched on R-7-derived rockets.
- Soyuz is the longest-serving crewed spacecraft line and still flies to the ISS.
- Roscosmos was founded in 1992 as the Russian Space Agency and has been a state corporation since 2015.
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Sources & further reading
- Roscosmos: official website of the state corporation (in Russian).
- NASA History: context for Sputnik and the beginnings of the Soviet programme.
Spaceflightpedia. (n.d.). OKB-1 / Soviet space program (today Roscosmos). Retrieved 18 October 2026, from https://spaceflightpedia.com/article/roscosmos
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