Crew members of Soyuz TM-16 spacecraft and of the 13th principal (long-term) expedition to Mir space station: Commander Gennady Manakov and Flight Engineer Alexander Poleshchuk, right. The flight is scheduled for January 24 - July 22, 1993.01.10.1993#3021114
Franz Artur Viehboeck, the first Austrian cosmonaut, a member of the joint Soviet-Austrian crew of the Soyuz TM-13 spaceship, during preparations for the flight.08.08.1991#5559779
The Telemetry Processing Center at the Plesetsk Experimental Space Launch Center in the Arkhangelsk Region.15.06.1991#6686498
Soviet-British space crew members, from left: onboard engineer, pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of the USSR Sergei Krikalyov, crew commander Anatoliy Artsibarsky and British cosmonaut-researcher Helen Sharman.18.05.1991#2796937
Helen Sharman, British food technologist and candidate for participation in a space flight, learns about using a spacesuit and how it works.10.02.1990#6669372
British candidates for participation in a space flight undergo training in the Soviet Union. Kingston University professor Clive Smith, Royal Navy doctor Gordon John Brooks, food technologist Helen Sharman and military pilot Timothy Mace, left to right, on Red Square in Moscow.10.02.1990#6669371
The Kazakh SSR. Transporting the Soyuz TM-9 spacecraft to a launch pad of the Baikonur Cosmodrome.10.02.1990#6703148
The Kazakh SSR. Installing the Soyuz TM-9 spacecraft on a launch pad of the Baikonur Cosmodrome. t10.02.1990#6660431
Valentina Ponomareva, Soviet pilot, Candidate in Engineering, test cosmonaut. In 1962-1969 she was a member of the USSR cosmonaut squad. She was the second backup person of the first woman cosmonaut of the planet, Valentina Tereshkova.10.11.1989#6566948
Soviet and foreign journalists visit the vehicle assembly and testing facility at Plesetsk Cosmodrome. A Meteor weather satellite and Molniya (Lightning) communications satellite are being assembled here.02.09.1989#8135680
Soviet and foreign journalists visit the vehicle assembly and testing facility at Plesetsk Cosmodrome. A Meteor weather satellite and Molniya (Lightning) communications satellite are being assembled here.02.09.1989#8135673
US public activist Brian Todd O'Leary, foreground, a former NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) astronaut, during his visit to the USSR to promote peaceful space exploration, the peace cruise on the Dnieper River. O'Leary is the author of 'Mars 1999: Exclusive Preview of the US-Soviet Manned Mission' (1987).12.08.1989#6624518
Kvant (Quantum) astrophysical module developed by Soviet scientists and engineers to conduct astrophysical observations and research in materials science and biology. In April 1987, the module was joined to Mir Soviet orbital space station.02.07.1989#5572762
A US delegation of military experts led by Chair of the US House of Representatives Armed Forces Committee Les Aspin in the USSR. Delegation member John Hammond, former director of the SDI energy program (Strategic Defense Initiative, nicknamed Star Wars program).01.07.1989#6560675
Chair of the US House of Representatives Armed Forces Committee Les Aspin, head of the US delegation of military experts in the USSR.01.07.1989#6560673
A US delegation of military experts led by Chair of the US House of Representatives Armed Forces Committee Les Aspin in the USSR. Delegation member James Bilbrey, congressman from Democrats.01.07.1989#6560672
A US delegation of military experts led by Chair of the US House of Representatives Armed Forces Committee Les Aspin in the USSR. A delegation member (it included over 30 experts).01.07.1989#6560671
A US delegation of military experts led by Chair of the US House of Representatives Armed Forces Committee Les Aspin in the USSR. Delegation member Col. John Francis Kelly.01.07.1989#6560670
A US delegation of military experts led by Chair of the US House of Representatives Armed Forces Committee Les Aspin, third on the right, in the USSR. A test range of the Ukrainian SSR armed forces, located 30 km north-west of Lviv, in the Yavoriv district of the Lviv region (now the International Center for Peacekeeping and Security of the Hetman Pyotr Sagaidachny National Academy of Ground Forces).01.07.1989#6560669
A US delegation of military experts led by Chair of the US House of Representatives Armed Forces Committee Les Aspin in the USSR. American experts examine Soviet military facilities.01.07.1989#6560668
A US delegation of military experts led by Chair of the US House of Representatives Armed Forces Committee Les Aspin in the USSR. After a demonstration of the laser installation at the Center for Physical Tool Engineering of the Institute of General Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Prokhorov Institute, RAS) in the city of Troitsk.01.07.1989#6560667
A US delegation of military experts led by Chair of the US House of Representatives Armed Forces Committee Les Aspin in the USSR. Delegation member L. Hopkins, congressman from Republicans.01.07.1989#6560666
A US delegation of military experts led by Chair of the US House of Representatives Armed Forces Committee Les Aspin in the USSR. Delegation member, expert Deborah Lee.01.07.1989#6560665
A US delegation of military experts led by Chair of the US House of Representatives Armed Forces Committee Les Aspin in the USSR. Delegation member Military Attache D. Canyok.01.07.1989#6560663
A US delegation of military experts led by Chair of the US House of Representatives Armed Forces Committee Les Aspin in the USSR. Delegation member Henry Bateman, congressman from the Republicans.01.07.1989#6560660
Chair of the US House of Representatives Armed Forces Committee Les Aspin, head of a US delegation of military experts and congressmen in the USSR.01.07.1989#6560659
A US delegation of military experts led by Chair of the US House of Representatives Armed Forces Committee Les Aspin, first on the right at the table, in the USSR. American guests at the Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR.01.07.1989#6560656
A US delegation of military experts led by Chair of the US House of Representatives Armed Forces Committee Les Aspin, center, in the USSR. Guests at the Molniya research enterprise after examining the Soviet orbital spacecraft Buran of the reusable transport space system, which the foreign experts believed to be a response to a similar American Space Shuttle project.01.07.1989#6560655
A US delegation of military experts led by Chair of the US House of Representatives Armed Forces Committee Les Aspin in the USSR. Guests examine the construction of another Soyuz vessel (Soyuz is a family of Soviet and Russian multi-seat manned transport spacecraft that served to send crews to the International Space Station) at the Korolyov Rocket and Space Corporation Energiya in the town of Korolyov, Moscow Region.01.07.1989#6560653
Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.Vladimir Avinsky, worker of the Institute of Geology and Fossil Fuels of the USSR Academy of Sciences, on Minsk television in a program about looking for contacts with alien civilizations. The Avinsky Pentoid is a geometric model of tension structure in the earth crust.01.04.1989#6650249
Kazakh SSR. A Soviet-French space flight. Landing of a Soyuz TM-6 spacecraft. French astronaut Jean-Loup Chrétien after the landing.21.12.1988#5555262
French cosmonaut-researcher Jean-Loup Chretien, a member of the joint Soviet-French crew of the Soyuz TM-6 spacecraft, after landing near the city of Dzhezkazgan (now Zhezkazgan) of the Kazakh SSR.21.12.1988#8213013
From left: French cosmonaut research Jean-Loup Chretien, and Soviet cosmonauts Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov, members of the joint Soviet-French crew of the Soyuz TM-6 spacecraft, after landing near the city of Dzhezkazgan (now Zhezkazgan) of the Kazakh SSR.21.12.1988#8213012
Soviet cosmonaut Musa Manarov, member of the joint Soviet-French crew of the Soyuz TM-6 spacecraft, after landing near the city of Dzhezkazgan (now Zhezkazgan) of the Kazakh SSR.21.12.1988#8213011
Soviet reusable space transportation system, Energia-Buran, consisting of a powerful new carrier rocket Energia and a reusable orbiter, Buran. The orbiter of the Buran system made its first and only unmanned space flight on November 15, 1988 (in 1993, it was decided to scrap the program).07.12.1988#6591441
Soviet reusable space transportation system, Energia-Buran, consisting of a powerful new carrier rocket Energia and a reusable orbiter, Buran. The orbiter of the Buran system made its first and only unmanned space flight on November 15, 1988 (in 1993, it was decided to scrap the program).07.12.1988#6591432
Soviet reusable space transportation system, Energia-Buran, consisting of a powerful new carrier rocket Energia and a reusable orbiter, Buran. The orbiter of the Buran system made its first and only unmanned space flight on November 15, 1988 (in 1993, it was decided to scrap the program).07.12.1988#6591431
Soviet reusable space transportation system, Energia-Buran, consisting of a powerful new carrier rocket Energia and a reusable orbiter, Buran. The orbiter of the Buran system made its first and only unmanned space flight on November 15, 1988 (in 1993, it was decided to scrap the program).07.12.1988#6591430
Soviet reusable space transportation system, Energia-Buran, consisting of a powerful new carrier rocket Energia and a reusable orbiter, Buran. The orbiter of the Buran system made its first and only unmanned space flight on November 15, 1988 (in 1993, it was decided to scrap the program).07.12.1988#6591429
Soviet reusable space transportation system, Energia-Buran, consisting of a powerful new carrier rocket Energia and a reusable orbiter, Buran. The orbiter of the Buran system made its first and only unmanned space flight on November 15, 1988 (in 1993, it was decided to scrap the program).07.12.1988#6591428
Soviet reusable space transportation system, Energia-Buran, consisting of a powerful new carrier rocket Energia and a reusable orbiter, Buran. The orbiter of the Buran system made its first and only unmanned space flight on November 15, 1988 (in 1993, it was decided to scrap the program).07.12.1988#6591427
Kazakh SSR. Soviet-French crew of the Soyuz TM-7 space flight, including flight engineer Sergei Krikalev, commander and Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Volkov and French research cosmonaut Jean-Loup Chretien. Baikonur Space Launch Center. Mission control center.26.11.1988#8178785
Soviet reusable space transportation system, Energia-Buran, consisting of a powerful new carrier rocket Energia and a reusable orbiter, Buran. Test launch from Baikonur: the Buran about to land.21.11.1988#6585748
Soviet reusable space transportation system, Energia-Buran, consisting of a powerful new carrier rocket Energia and a reusable orbiter, Buran. Test launch from Baikonur: the rocket at the launch site.21.11.1988#6585740
Energiya-Buran, Soviet reusable transport space system, which includes a new powerful launch vehicle Energiya and the Buran reusable orbital ship. The orbital spaceship-spaceplane of the Buran system made its first and only space flight in an unmanned mode on November 15, 1988 (in 1993, a decision was made to stop work and preserve the created backlog). Before a test launch at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.15.11.1988#8320278
The Buran Soviet orbital rocket ship of the reusable transport space system, created as part of the Energiya-Buran program, landed at the Yubileiny airfield of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakh SSR.15.11.1988#8314961
From right: the crew of the Buran Soviet orbital rocket ship of the reusable transport space system: test cosmonaut Rimantas Stankevicius and test pilot Magomet Tolboyev at the Yubileiny airfield of the Baikonur Launchpad, Kazakh SSR.15.11.1988#8314960
Launch of the Energiya-Buran reusable transport space system from the Baikonur cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR.15.11.1988#8314959
Launch of the Energiya-Buran reusable transport space system from the Baikonur cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR.15.11.1988#8314958
The launch of the Energia-Buran reusable transport space system from the Baikonur cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR.15.11.1988#8309353
The launch of the Energia-Buran reusable transport space system from the Baikonur cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR.15.11.1988#8309352
The launch of the Energia-Buran reusable transport space system from the Baikonur cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR.15.11.1988#8309351
The launch of the Energia-Buran reusable transport space system from the Baikonur cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR.15.11.1988#8309350
Kabul residents greet members of the Soviet-Afghan crew of the Soyuz TM-6 space flight in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.11.11.1988#6591379
Members of the Soviet-Afghan crew of the Soyuz TM-6 space flight in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Commander, test pilot Vladimir Lyakhov, Afghan research cosmonaut Abdul Ahad Momand and his double Mohammad Dauran, right to left, during a wreath-laying ceremony at the tomb of Soviet international troops.11.11.1988#6591370
Members of the Soviet-Afghan crew of the Soyuz TM-6 space flight in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Commander, test pilot Vladimir Lyakhov, second left, Afghan research cosmonaut Abdul Ahad Momand, third left, and his double Mohammad Dauran, third right, meet with locals.11.11.1988#6591368
Soviet reusable space transportation system, Energia-Buran, consisting of a powerful new carrier rocket Energia and a reusable orbiter, Buran. Preparations for the test launch at Baikonur launchpad are nearing completion.02.11.1988#6578536
