Soyuz programme

The Soyuz programme (Russian: Союз, ); English: Union) is a human spaceflight programme that was initiated by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s. It was originally part of a Moon landing programme intended to put a Soviet cosmonaut on the Moon. Both the Soyuz spacecraft and the Soyuz launch vehicle are part of this programme, which is now the responsibility of the Russian Federal Space Agency.
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