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In the 1960s it began carrying cosmonauts into space and then to the Soviet Salyut and Mir stations

250-kilometre-long peninsula in the Russian Far East

or Soviet designation Project 705 Lira (Russian:

the Soviet spacecraft carried only lighter maneuvering rockets

Leonov was selected to be first Soviet person to land on the Moon

Green / Green LE In the 1960s it beganUser Manual: EN The Soyuz rocket is the workhorse for Russian human space missions and has been used for that purpose longer than any other vehicle. In the 1960s it began carrying cosmonauts into space and then to the Soviet Salyut and Mir stations. It was designed by the the famed Korolev design bureau for the later cancelled moon landing programs. Soyuz is the Russian word for Union A modified Soyuz flew in July 1975 for the Apollo Soyuz Test