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| | The Soviet manned Space Program (Vostok, Voskhod, Soyuz and Salyut missions) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | This program consisted of 40 flights during the fourteen years of first stage of the program, in which the Soyuz capsules were used. |
 | | This joint program between the two world-wide powers of the space, until that moment totally rival, meant a very important landmark in the history of the astronautics, as well as in the one of the cold war. |
 | | This program included between its primary targets the study from the space of different scientific fields, such as communications, Biology, medicine, physics, etc. In addition, this project allowed to the USSR the improvement of the political and economic relations with the mentioned countries, as well as an important technological collaboration. |
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