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Voskhod Program
cosmonauts involved with program
design engineers
Gemini program
missions
other manned space programs
picture, Voskhod Capsule
Soyuz, successor piloted spacecraft program
studies performed by cosmonauts
training of cosmonauts
Vostok program, predecessor space program
Astronaut
Astronaut, crew member on piloted spaceflights. The term astronaut comes from the Latin words astrum (“star”) and nauta (“mariner”) and is used mostly...
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