Soyuz
Russian orbital vehicle
Soyuz is a Russian spacecraft program that has transported cosmonauts and astronauts to space stations since the 1960s.
The name means "union" in Russian.
The Soyuz capsule remains the primary vehicle for crewed missions to the International Space Station: They launched aboard a Soyuz from Kazakhstan.
The term also refers to the rocket that carries it.
cosmonaut
Russian orbital traveler
- capsuleEnclosed dose container
- rocketPropulsion-driven spacecraft
- ISSOrbiting multinational research facility
docking · reentry · orbital · Gagarin · module · crew · hatch · parachute · descent · rendezvous
Soviet
Of the USSR
Cold War · cooperation · handshake · 1975 · Brezhnev · Stafford · diplomacy · joint mission
- Cosmodromelaunch pad, launchpad, launch tower, gantry, mission control
- rocketsrocket, rockets, ballistic missile, booster, boosters
- Space HistoryApollo 11, moon landing, Sputnik, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin
- spacecraftspacecraft, starships, spaceship, Voyager 1, rocket ships
- spaceflightlaunch, astronaut, spacecraft, liftoff, orbit
- rocketryrocket, rockets, rocket fuel, rocket engine, rocket engines
SoyuzApollo
Sun deity, moonshot namesake
Space Shuttle · Orion · Mercury · Gemini · NASA
SoyuzApollo
Sun deity, moonshot namesake
Apollo 11 · NASA · Cape Canaveral · Neil Armstrong · Kennedy Space Center
union, unite, united, unity, unify, unification, reunion, reunite, disunity