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NEW AND UPDATED - January 6, 2002
Phantom Cosmonauts - Did Soviet cosmonauts die in space?
  Was Ilyushin first?
Updates to Chronology and Astronaut Statisticsthrough the end of 2001
Almaz - the only manned combat spacecraft ever flown!
Updated - March 2001 - Over 5,000 new entries, including:
Soviet Manned Mars Expeditions
Gun-launched 5 inch and 7 inch Space Probes
Launch vehicles of a Larger Kind:
  Sea Dragon - Barbarian - AJ-260
Today in Space History
Comprehensive History of Solid Rockets, by Andre Bedard
Apollo Odds and Mods
US Space Stations - by Marcus Lindroos
Space and Pressure Suits - from the X-1 to the Martian Surface
Soyuz - Untangling the Models
Projects Adam, 7969, Mer - and Mercury Mark I!
West European Space Stations
Spacecraft Families
Goddard's Rockets
Updated - December 2000
Chinese Moon Base Plans! - 921-2 Station - 921-3 Shuttle
Shenzhou Spacecraft - 1978 Spaceplane - 1949 Rocketplane!
Secret History of the Early Soviet Rockets! - The German role
KABOOM! Supergun Space Launchers ! - from Newton to Sadam Hussein!
South African Missile/Space Programs - RSA-4 ICBM
EPIC!! - Secret History of the Soviet Space Program
Chelomei's way to Mars: UK-700M - UR-900! - MK-700
Chelomei's Lunar Expedition: UR-700 / LK-700
Complete Redstone and Jupiter launch logs!
Your Flight Has Been Cancelled....
   The greatest manned spaceflights that never were...
History of China's Manned Space Program
Soviet Spaceplanes Revealed - Buran - In Depth History
Moon Race!
Soviet LK Lunar Lander
How much did the CIA know - and when?
Competing Superboosters - Soviet
The N1 Story - Russian Superbooster! - R-56 - R-56 Polyblock - SK-100 - UR-700
Competing Superboosters - American
Saturn C1 to C8 - NOVA! NASA Super Boosters! - Project Orion - Cities on the Moon by 1970!
Competing Lunar Spacecraft - Soviet
Soviet Lunar Projects - Soyuz L1 - Soyuz LOK - LK-1 - LK-700 - L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, and L3M-70 and 72
Competing Lunar Spacecraft - American
Project Horizon - GE Apollo - Lunar Gemini - Project Lunex - Project Apollo Systems Development Diaries
Robot Explorers of the Moon and Planets!
BAIL OUT! - MOOSE & other wild schemes....
Why Space? - If the Sun Dies... - Rocket Propellants / Engine Selector - Project Aelita - the Many Soviet Ways to Mars
Maps of Secret Places: - Baikonur - Plesetsk - Kapustin Yar
Data Download - Russian Rocket Engine Data Table!
Proton Story - N Korean Launch Vehicle
Soviet Combat Spacecraft!
Soyuz-P - Soyuz-R - Soyuz-VI - Soyuz-S
Polyus - Istrebitel Sputnik ASAT! - TKS Ferry - Almaz - Zenit
GEMINI-MANIA!
Giant Soviet Space Stations - RSA-3 - South African Launcher
Other Favorites
Soyuz 1 - Launch Vehicle Failures - Navaho - Burya - Titan - Soyuz 7K-OK - Progress - Dynasoar - MOL - Progress TM - The Ultimate Saturn V's - Saturn II's - Saturn I's


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