Documents on the 20th-century competition for supremacy in spaceflight capacity between the United States and the Soviet Union. The majority of materials in this collection were selected, edited, and annotated by Dr. Asif Siddiqi. For background and context on these documents, please see his introductions Documenting the Soviet ICBM Program and New Sources on Sputnik.
Asif Siddiqi introduces seven Russian documents on the development of the Soviet ballistic missile program and the creation of the R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile in 1957.
Asif Siddiqi introduces and contextualizes Russian-language sources on Sputnik, the first Soviet satellite.
Documents selected, curated, and annotated by Asif Siddiqi on Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human to travel into space on April 12, 1961.
This collection provides an extraordinary peek into the preparations and implementation of the flight of Yuri Gagarin, the first Soviet cosmonaut.
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