Computing in the Soviet Space Program

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• RGANTD stores documents about the history of Russian space-rocket technology and cosmonautics: scientific-technical documentation, results of geodesic, meteorological, biological, astronomical, space-medical research; documentary sound recordings concerning the history of space exploration, including recordings of communications with spacecraft (1961-1993); films, photos and videotape recordings about the development of Russian manned space flights and international cooperation in space exploration; telemetry information about planetary research from the board of space ships.

• space flights

• biographies of cosmonauts and astronauts

• ground experiments

• publications

• audio recordings of the cosmonauts Gagarin, Leonov, and Beregovoi

• annual Gagarin conferences on the history of rocket and space technology and human cosmonautics (1996-1999) (2001-2004)

• first Soviet computers

• calculators

• computers for production control

• onboard computers for ships and submarines 

• onboard computers for missiles

• Institute of Cybernetics in Kyiv

• detailed timeline developed by the Department of Computer Systems and Technologies at the Moscow Physical Technical Institute

History of Russian and Soviet Cosmonautics by Aleksandr Krasnikov

• designers

• cosmonauts

• scientists

• projects

• launch sites

• launch database

• flight chronology

• institutions

• photo archive

Encyclopedia Astronautica by Mark Wade

• rockets

• spacecraft

• people

• programs

• chronology

• references

Encyclopedia Cosmonautica by Aleksandr Zhelezniakov

• news

• publications

• cosmonauts

• scientists and designers

• space exploration chronology

• space programs

• spacecraft

• launch sites

• launchers

• International Space Station

• manned flights

• launch database

• space stamps

• 2001-2007 conference proceedings

• Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: History Office site and Kennedy Space Center site

• Sputnik

• Great Images in NASA (GRIN): Soviet/Russian

• NASA Timeline

• Publications

• Piloted Flights

• Cosmonauts. Astronauts. Crews

• Launches

• Probes

• Spacecraft

• Satellite Communications

• Launch Vehicles. Rocket Engines

• Collector's Page

• Companies. Agencies. Organizations

• Heroes of Space Remember

• History

• Biographies

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• cosmonauts

• spacecraft

• boosters and missiles

• missions

• projects

• space centers

• newsletters

• conferences

• news

• rockets

• spacecraft

• centers

• people

• chronology

• Sputnik

• spacecraft

• missiles

• organizations

• primary documents

• Buran designers

• Buran pilots

• Buran design

• Buran flight

• Energia launcher

• Spiral project

• Bor experimental space vehicles

• Multipurpose Aerospace System (MAKS)

• photos

• news

• space weapons

• launches

• analytical articles

• space encyclopedia

• photo gallery

• institutions database

• space tourism

• space videogames

• 2002-2007 conference proceedings

• timeline

• computing before computers

• English-Russian computer dictionary

• history of computing abroad

• history of communications engineering

• history of videogames

• bibliography

• Hall of Fame

• first computers

• history of computer technology in the USSR

• history of software

• computer technologies

• timelines

• manned flights

• interplanetary flights

• cancelled projects

• photos

• 3D models

• cosmonaut selection

• training

• biomedical tests

• flights of Gagarin and Titov

• after flight publicity

• photos