SPACE PROGRAM.PART 4

were amazed by German designs and till date still baffled when they launch periodic inspection on the project remains and relics at Peenemunde and Mittelwerk after world war 11:Having won the war,as part of allied forces,the winner takes all either by theft,loot or booty and Americans in the operation paperclip,secretly transported top German scientists and innovation including 100 V-2 rockets to the United States.In the Soviet program,the soviets exploited captured German production tools including V-2 manufacturing sites and benefited immensely from looted resources at Mittelwerk located in eastern Germany.On July,1945,captured German scientists and skilled workforce were conscripted by the soviet for the Institut Nordhausen in Bileicherode with mandate to reestablish lost design drawings including engineering data and restore V-2 components manufacturing in Germany.Thousands of German scientists shipped to soviets provided early strategic inputs that provided filip to space project and economic miracle.

Two days,after United States declared intention to launch artificial satelite on July 31,1955,the soviet union equally announced its and by october 1957 launched Sputnik 1 stunning the world and beating America,to the game.It was a schocker. 1957:1st Intercontinental balistic missile orbital launch vehicle R-7 Semyorka;1959:First rocket ignition in the earth orbit;first manmade to escape the earth's gravity Luna 1;first data communication or telemetry to and from outerspace Luna 2;first man made object to pass the moon;first man made object in heliocentric orbit Lunar 1;First probe to impact the moon Lunar 2;first image on the far side of the moon Luna 3:1960,first set of animals to safely return to orbit the dogs-Belka and Strelka(BS) on sputnik 5:1961.the first probe to be launched to venus,Venera 1,first person to spend over 24hours in space Gherman Titov enroute Vostok 2;first crewed spaceflight Vostok 3 and Vostok 4:1962,first probe launched to Mars-Mars 1:1964,first multiperson crew:1965 crew on Voskhod 1:1965,first radiotelescope in space.Zond 3;First probe to hit another planet of solar system(Venus)Venera 3:1966,first probe in lunar orbit.luna 10;first image of the world earth disk,Molinya 1:1967,first unscrewed rendezvous and docking.Coscos/86/Cosmos188:1968,first living being to reach the moon.