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Interkosmos : the Eastern Bloc's early space program / Colin Burgess, Bert Vis

History and Development of the Interkosmos program -- First to fly : Czechoslovakia's cosmonaut -- From Poland to Salyut-6 -- Sigmund Jähn and Soyuz-30 -- Bulgaria in space -- Hungary joins the space ...
RBTH

Why did the USSR send foreign cosmonauts into space?

After Yuri Gagarin and John Glenn were rocketed into space in the early 1960s: The two world superpowers, in effect, turned outer space into their personal fiefdom. For almost 15 years, only U.S. and ...
Moviefone

Interkosmos (2006)

Interkosmos is a musical documentary-style film about the East German space program-a program with the energy and creativity of the Soviet arts scene of the 1920s and a bit of the hippie sensibility ...
Space.com

Cosmonaut Muhammed Faris, first Syrian in space, dies at 72

Faris launched aboard Soyuz TM-3 to the Mir space station as part of the Soviet Union's Interkosmos program. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...