Soviet space program
The Soviet space program (СССР) was the designation for an early Human space exploration agency created by the Earth nation Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

History
1957 – the first artificial satellite Sputnik is launched into orbit. First signals from space. ()
1961 – Vostok 1 made a single successful orbit of Earth. ()
1966 – the Soviet launched the Soyuz spacecraft. ()
 1968 – a nuclear warhead platforms were launched into orbit by all the major powers on Earth. The sabotage and subsequent detonation of the US suborbital warhead eventually led to a stronger international agreement to ban such weapons. ()

Background information 
The starship , the  shuttlepod , and the  shuttlecraft  were named after famous Soviet cosmonauts. According to the , the  was named after the Soyuz spacecraft of the Soviet space program. The  was named after the Soviet space pioneer .

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Earth agencies