The Soviets had even built a prototype moon suit, called the Krechet ("Golden ... ranging from cannons to laser guns into space. In 1974, the Soviet Union launched the Salyut 3 space station ...
On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and ... colour for maximum propaganda effect), his suit ballooned when no longer constrained ...
cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...