Soviet space program

The Soviet space program (СССР) was the designation for an early Human space exploration agency created by the Earth nation Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). 
==History==
*1957 – the first artificial satellite Sputnik is launched into orbit. First signals from space. ()
*1961 – Vostok 1 made a single successful orbit of Earth. ()
*1966 – the Soviet launched the Soyuz spacecraft. ()
* 1968 – a nuclear warhead platforms were launched into orbit by all the major powers on Earth. The sabotage and subsequent detonation of the US suborbital warhead eventually led to a stronger international agreement to ban such weapons. ()
== Background information ==
The starship , the shuttlepod , and the shuttlecraft were named after famous Soviet cosmonauts. 
According to the , the was named after the Soyuz spacecraft of the Soviet space program. 
The was named after the Soviet space pioneer .
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