Description: Vostok 5, the fifth spacecraft in the USSRs manned flight series, was piloted by cosmonaut Valeriy F. Bykovskiy, he launched on the Vostok 5 mission on 14 June 1963, returned on 19 of June of 1963 and completed 81 orbits in close to 5 days of mission time.
Description: The Buran program (Buran is Бура́н with russian characters) was started by the Soviet Union as a response to the United States Space Shuttle programme. The project was the largest and the most expensive in the history of Soviet space exploration.
Description: East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik pronounced DDR), was a socialist state in Central Europe, during the Cold War period. From 1949 to 1990, it administered the region of Germany that was occupied by Soviet forces at the end of World War II—the Soviet Occupation Zone of the Potsdam Agreement, bounded on the east by the Oder–Neisse line. (source : wikipedia)
Description: The Eagle (Aquila) was the most prestigious and sacred military standard of the Roman legions and was handled with the greatest veneration. SPQR are the initials of a Latin phrase Senātus Populusque Rōmānus. It means "The Roman Senate and People" or "The Senate and People of Rome".
Description: The Baikonour Cosmodrome is the world's first spaceport for orbital and human launches and the largest (in area) operational space launch facility.The spaceport is in the desert steppe of Baikonur, about 200 kilometres east of the Aral Sea and north of the river Syr Darya.
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