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Russians Led Space Race Despite Internal Turmoil
AP Special Correspondent William L. Ryan outlines how Russia produced scientific pioneers like Tsiolkovsky while facing czarist and Stalin era terror. He notes prewar rocket milestones, liquid fuel tests, and the Katyusha rockets, contrasted with Soviet reliance on U.S. wartime supplies.
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Russia
Mendeleyev
Lomonsov
Konstantin Edvardovitch
Tsiolkovsky
Kaluga
Moscow
Pravda
Stalin
A. N Tupelov
U. S
A. G. Kostyukov