The following quotation is from an interview with former cosmonaut Vladimir Kovalyonok, now a “Colonel General” (3-star) in charge of the Zhukovskiy Military Air Engineering Academy. It was published in the Russian army newspaper “Red Star” (Krasnaya Zvezda) on Nov 21, 1995: “Today Russia is also finding it extremely difficult to hold onto its space achievements. Everyone in the world was familiar with two words: Volga and Gagarin. They were […]
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Month: November 1995