Soviet Rocket Hits Moon (1959)

Description: A western broadcast of the moment of impact, signalled by cessation of the radar beep.

Source: Kennan Institute-National Public Radio: Russian History Audio Archive

1961

Anti-Parasite Law Bratsk Bulat Okudzhava Corn Campaign Fight Against Superstition First Cosmonaut Khrushchev on the Arts The Khrushchev Slums Moral Code of the Builder of Communism Novocherkassk Massacre Thaw Poets