THE UNIQUE FOOTAGE
Rear, not known video, shot by witnesses of the events, and also recently declassified materials – all of that you will find here.

NEW MIR STATION FLYBY ON THE SOYUZ TM-13 (RUS49 Mb, 20 minutes, $) - On October 15, 1991 cosmonauts Alexey Volkov and Sergey Krikalev undocked from Mir station, flyby the station and docked with Kvant module. During this operation cosmonauts filmed the whole Mir station and it’s modules – and this is one of the most detailed views of the station of that time with Sergey Krikalev comments.
SHIELD OF MOTHERLAND (Rus+ English subtitles, 64 Mb, 24 minutes, $) – declassified documentary about visit to the Baikonur Space range Of the Warsaw Pact Heads of the States, including Cuba in 1966 year. Head of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev is guiding the Delegations around Space range and presenting them newest ICBMs and Space boosters.
LAUNCH OF PHOTON M1 SATTELITE – October 15, 2002 (Eng, 18 Mb, 6 minutes, unedited) - Video materiel shot by several cameramen during ill-fated booster, natural sound.
NEDELIN DISASTER (no sound, 29 Mb, 13 minutes, $) - On October 24, 1960 year at Baikonur Space range during first test of R-16 ICBM happened a real disaster, which took from 76 to 126 lives (based on different sources), including Commander-in-Chief of Soviet Strategic Missile Command general Mitrofan Nedelin. A new video with the results of the explosion is added.
SEA LAUNCH NSS-8 LAUNCH FAILURE VIDEO 30.01.2007 (UTC) (RUS+ENG 4Mb, 1 minute 30 seconds) - The Sea Launch Zenit-3SL booster, carrying the NSS-8 satellite, exploded January 30 during the launch. (Source www.nasaspaceflight.com)
INSTRUCTIONAL DOCUMENTARY “ACTIONS OF THE CREW DURING NON STANDARD SITUATIONS” – PART 1 “STATION UNPRESSUARISATION” (RUS 22 Mb, 9 minutes, $) - Watching this instructional film you will get a better understanding of the cosmonauts actions during the fire on board Mir Station at the time of Main Mission-23.

TIKHONRAVOV TEAM (66 Mb, 27 minutes) - This is unique documentary of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR (produced in 1986 year), which is based on the interviews with the participants of the Michael Tihonravov Team who designed 1 Sputnik. These outstanding engineers and designers tell us a story about First Satellite and they are: M. K. Tihonravov, I. M. Yatsunsky, G. Yu. Maximov, L. N. Soldatova, A. V. Brikov, G. M. Moskalenko, I. K. Bazhinov, O. V. Gurko and V. N. Galkovsky.

 

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