Info| Organizations in wich Poland participates or participated Interkosmos Project |
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Interkosmos (Russian: Интеркосмос) was a Soviet space program, designed to give nations on friendly terms with the Soviet Union access to manned and unmanned space missions.
The program included the allied east-European nations of the Warsaw Pact / COMECON, and other socialist/communist nations like Afghanistan, Cuba, Mongolia and Vietnam.
In addition non-aligned nations such as India and Syria did participate, and even part-time NATO-member France contributed to Interkosmos.Begun in April 1967 with unmanned research satellite missions, the first manned mission occurred in February 1978. Interkosmos missions enabled 14 non-Soviet cosmonauts to participate in Soyuz space flights between 1978 and 1988.
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for the flight in 1978
One of them was the Pole Mirosław Hermaszewski.
for the flight in 1978
International Cosmonautics Day
On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin made the first flight into space. That is why in the Soviet Union April 12 was celebrated as International Cosmonautics Day. Other countries also adopted this holiday. Several issues dedicated to space travel appeared on this date.
More information in English about Interkosmos.
