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- 1996 Mar (Creation)
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Typescript transcript of interview with Khionia [Nikolaevna] Kraskina, Soviet scientist at the Soviet Rocket Development and Space Centre, Baykonur, USSR, 1954-[1961], relating to the Soviet space programme, 1954-1961; Soviet development of Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM), 1953-1957; the launch of the first man to travel in space, Soviet Cosmonaut Yuriy Alekseevich Gagarin, 12 Apr 1961; the launch of the Sputnik I Earth orbiting satellite, Oct 1957; the denunciation by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, of the Stalin cult and the excesses of Stalinism at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, Feb 1956; the serious accident that occurred during the testing of a Soviet space rockets, 24 Oct 1960. 21pp
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