The American magazine Popular Mechanics published a list of 15 major space missions in the history of mankind, which fell four programs implemented by the USSR, and one project made with the participation of Russia.
The most important achievements of the Soviet Union in the astronautics are called: the launch of the first artificial satellite of the Earth (SPUTNIK-1 spacecraft was brought to an near-earth orbit in October 1957), the start on the “East” rocket with the Space Space Space Space Space ( In April 1961, Yuri Gagarin began in April 1961), sending the first woman to space (Valentina Tereshkova in June 1963) and the first successful soft landing on another planet (in December 1970, Venen-7 spacecraft in Venus).
Also on the list of publications came the International Space Station, the deployment of which began Russia in November 1998.
Among other achievements are called, in particular, Mission Mariner 4 (first shot of another planet), Apollo 11 (first person on the moon), Voyager 1 (mission to interstellar space), Cassini – Huygens (Mission to Saturn and his satellites) , Pathfinder (first rover on Mars), Hubble and Kepler Space Observatory. The incident with the APOLLO 13 mission is also mentioned, the catastrophe that occurred during the 25th flight Space Shuttle, and the first successful landing of the first stage of the Falcon 9 missile.
In May Tass, referring to the acting financial director of NASA Steve Shinna, said that the agency’s budget request for 2022 fiscal year does not provide for the purchase of places for American astronauts on Russian Soyuz spacecraft.