[DOC] [TLE] Space Race - Wikipedia [PAR] The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, 
the Soviet ... The competition began on August 2, 1955, when the Soviet Union 
responded ..... a program to launch the first man in space, named Man in Space 
Soonest. .... mounted on its launch vehicle's third stage, with the nose cone in 
place. [DOC] [TLE] Soviet space program - Wikipedia [PAR] The Soviet space program comprised the rocketry and space exploration 
programs conducted .... It set the goal of a lunar landing in 1967 the 50th 
anniversary of the October Revolution or 1968. ..... The Soviet space program 
Buran produced the Space Shuttle Buran based on the 3rd in history super heavy 
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cosmonaut in ... During his time at the Cosmonaut Training Center, he 
contributed to space vehicle .... In 1961 the first space flights began. .... Komarov 
was assigned to the Soviet Soyuz program along with Yuri Gagarin and Alexei 
Leonov. [DOC] [TLE] History of spaceflight - Wikipedia [PAR] Spaceflight became part of human achievement in the 20th century following 
theoretical and practical breakthroughs by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Robert H. 
Goddard. The Soviet Union took the lead in the post-war Space Race, launching 
the first satellite, the first man and the ... Gagarin's flight, part of the Soviet Vostok 
space exploration program, took... [DOC] [TLE] CHRONOLOGY OF DEFINING EVENTS IN NASA HISTORY [PAR] 3 Oct. 1967 The X-15 experimental rocket plane set a speed record for piloted ... 
1968 In a significant first, the Soviet Union sent its Zond 5, lunar mission capsule 
... After Apollo 8 made one and a half Earth orbits its third stage began a burn to 
put ... Instead, he was silent on the future of the U.S. space program until a Mar. [DOC] [TLE] Space Exploration | National Archives [PAR] Aug 21, 2016 ... Information about the United States' space flight programs, ... November 3 - The 
Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 was launched with a dog named Laika on board. ... 
May 25 - President Kennedy challenged the country to put a man on the moon ... 
1967. January 27 - Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger... [DOC] [TLE] 'Phantoms of Space' (Jim debunks the 'secret ... - James Oberg [PAR] Serious observers of the Soviet space program also gave a lot of careful ... 
should ask is this: had any Russian cosmonauts been killed on space missions 
before 1967? ... When the first Russian spaceflights began in 1961-62 and these 
men did not .... A third man, noticed in recently released photographs of the early 
group,... [DOC] [TLE] Race to the Moon Print: More Information [PAR] Formally, the race began on May 25, 1961 when President Kennedy made his ... 
The US space effort had more funding than the Soviet space program. ... a third 
moon booster, the UR-700, was proposed in 1964 and again in 1967. ... In the 
mid-1960s, the US implemented the Gemini program, a series of two-person 
space... [DOC] [TLE] The remains of the astronaut Vladimir Komarov, a man who fell from ... [PAR] Aug 18, 2014 ... The plan was for two Soviet Space vehicles to launch into space and ... Both 
knew the space capsule was not safe to fly, but everyone in space program was 
... The ship began to rotate around its axis and only spun more when ... The 
Gagarin of 1967 was very different from the carefree young man of 1961. [DOC] [TLE] Timeline: 50 Years of Spaceflight - Space.com [PAR] Sep 28, 2012 ... You are invited to walk through the half century of space exploration and click ... 
The Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States begins. ... the 
first of the manned Gemini missions, launches with a two-person crew ... 27, 1967
: All three astronauts for NASA's Apollo 1 mission suffocate from... [DOC] [TLE] The Millennium - Space Today Online [PAR] 1957: The U.S.S.R. (Soviet Union) launches Sputnik 1 and 2, Earth's

Question: Begun in 1967, it was the USSR's third man-in-space program
Answer: Soyuz