Houston, we have a problem

Trouble shooting & quick fix

Apollo 14: rebuild confidence

Apollo 15: expanded exploration

Surface featuresInternal structure

Exploration of highlands

Moon rocksAge & composition

Faces of the moon

20 million year freeze

Early Soviet rocket programGRID group during WWII

GRL and RNII

Korolev: father of Soviet space program

Rise and fall of Soviet rocket program

Promotion & purge

Chief rocket designers

Cosmonauts 1960

Gagarin(Vostok 1)

Tereshkova(Vostok 6)

Cold war & space race

Voskhod rocket

VoskhodFirst human EVALong flight records

Docking practice

Secrecy

Plesetsk

Success and tragedy

Soyuz 11 crew (1971)Kamarov (Soyuz 1)

Proton rocket

Zoo moon shot (1968)

Project Zond

Backup plan - equivalent to Lunar Surveyor

N1 rocket

Korolev’s equivalent to Saturn V

Failure (1972)Termination (1974)

Soyuz-Apollo cooperation

1975

Venera (1961-1983)

Energiya and Buran

Tu-4 and B-29

1986-1988

Third time’s the charm

Mir1986 – 2001

Discovery at Mir (1995)

Marsokhod, waiting for wings