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In 1971, the U.S. "Apollo" program was forced to suspend after Biden took office, and the United States and the Soviet Union once had no funds to continue to develop spacecraft, so that the entire titanium-chromium interstellar project fell into an unprecedented period of stagnation.
After the successful landing of the United States on the moon in 1969, the important goal of the space program into space has been achieved, and in order to save money, the United States first greatly reduced the itinerary of the "Apollo" and then simply divided the funds of the entire space sector into national defense, and continued to strengthen the Vietnam War, which was still escalating at that time.
The Soviet Union also did not have too much money for space flights, and because of the failure on the moon, the enthusiasm for the "moon program" in the Soviet Union fell sharply, and most of the funds were allocated to social construction.
But in 1971, the Soviet Union suddenly announced that it had successfully developed a spacecraft that could stay in space for a long time, and planned to use it to build a space station, and in more than a year, the Soviet Union was the first to send astronauts to the space station at an astonishing speed.
However, as the development of "Apollo" continued to advance, the United States also took the lead in building its own space station in 1973, and the space war between the United States and the Soviet Union began, and in the process, an astronaut named "Vladimir Krikalev" not only became the only astronaut from the Soviet Union to fly the American space shuttle for 47 years.
First, the Soviet Union developed the space station.
In 1969, after the United States successfully landed on the moon, the whole country boiled, and at that time, in the domestic policy of the Soviet Union, the study of space technology was the top priority of the Soviet state, and the development of space technology was considered an important embodiment of the Soviet Union's pride among the "capitalist countries".
So when the Soviet Union calmed down, the Soviet Institute of Applied Rocketry carried out the development of the space station, the Soviet Union had more than 10 years of experience in space technology research at that time, and the Soviet Union had already developed in 1966 the "Soyuz" spacecraft that could carry astronauts to complete the mission around the moon.
Therefore, on the side of the Soviet Union, preparations for the construction of a space station have been going on for more than two years, and although the United States was the first to land on the moon, they have been stagnant in the development of the space station, because the space program that the United States developed rapidly after the war is not without original sin, at least, in the "history of the Cold War", American space technology was directly purchased from the space department of Nazi Germany.
Later, the United States and the Soviet Union began to compete in the field of space technology, but the accumulation of space technology in the United States was based on the gradual development of the original foundation, while the Soviet Union started from scratch, and the Soviet Union's rocket technology was considered the first in the world at that time, and the leading "intercontinental missile" also found a certain technical basis.
However, after obtaining the "lunar data," the United States focused all its research and development on intelligent computers, and the Americans had not even built such a spacecraft as the "Soyuz" spacecraft before, but they succeeded in building the world's most advanced intelligent spacecraft "Apollo" at that time.
The Alliance and Apollo are spacecraft controlled by astronauts who directly enter the spacecraft, the Alliance is a spacecraft that Soviet cosmonauts have been practicing since childhood, and Apollo only appeared in 1969, and in the research and development of the space station, the United States has developed a spacecraft, and the basic function of the American space station at that time was to launch a large number of "Apollo" spacecraft one after another, and to test the air tightness.
This also made the United States' research and development on the space station equally short, and it would take two or three years at most to develop a space station, just like the "moon race" in the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, and the second "space station race" was also carried out by the Soviet Union first.
The Soviets converted the 199 and 200 ionization spacecraft into Soyuz and "Big Spacecraft", with the 200 carrying a large space station body, and the Soyuz carrying a device that could be used to build a space station.
In 1971, the Soviet Union entrusted the construction of the space station to a group of commanders and two groups of sailing detachments, and in October 1971, the Soviet Union carried out a rocket launch of the space station and the spacecraft at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh region, and the space station entered the predetermined orbit an hour later.
The Mir space station made the Soviet Union the first country to have a space station, and for the first time in the space "competition" between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union gained sufficient "space superiority", and in the following two years, the United States overtook the space station on the schedule originally scheduled to be established in 1973.
In 1973, the construction of the space station "Pinghe" was completed ahead of schedule, and the "Balance" spacecraft was sent to space in May, and nine days later, the United States successfully sent astronauts to the space station.
The Soviet Union ultimately chose two cosmonauts, Krikalev and Gagarin, while the United States also chose two cosmonauts, Cohen and Gibson, who will be "visited" in space on October 3 and October 16, respectively.
Krikalev returned from the USSR as soon as he received the news, but the two cosmonauts, Gagarin and Cohen, were on the Mir space station for more than a month under the control of both group commanders.
But Krikalev spent as many as 311 days on the Mir space station for as many as 311 days on the planned five-month stay before finally returning to Earth aboard Soyuz VII.
II. Krikalev's Dilemma.
At that time, in the Soviet Union, because of the fear of Soviet surveillance technology, there were often people who "got out of control", and those who broke out of control in the Soviet Union were basically regarded as "hostile elements" and arrested in the Soviet Union.
After Krikalev broke away from the control of the ground, the Soviet Union also regarded him as a "hostile" who "defected", and the Soviet Union "guarded" him on both sides at the same time, on the one hand, the Soyuz Mir space station "cut off" contact with the Krikalev 7 Soyuz, and on the other hand, it said that it would "control" Krikalev's consciousness.
Until July 30, Krikalev on the Mir space station could not stand the absolute emptiness of the environment, and finally chose to take the initiative to contact the control center on the ground, and in less than a month, the Soviet Union officially announced that the Mir space station and Soyuz VII had saved Krikalev in September.
After the Soviet official "rescued", he was also "disciplined" for three months, and the Soviet Union finally asked Krikalev to wait for the Mir space station in January 1975 "two or three maintenance personnel", when the two cosmonauts on the Mir space station were halfway to the Soyuz for space exploration, the space hatch on the Mir spacecraft was inadvertently not closed, which led to a significant drop in air pressure on the Mir space station.
In the face of the emergency on the Mir space station, the two astronauts could only return immediately, and the "control center" on the ground was also notified at that time, and after the two astronauts returned, the control center on the ground learned that the space hatch of Mir was not closed, so after several days of emergency exploration, no loopholes were found between Mir and Soyuz, so the "not remembering" of the two astronauts could only be regarded as the truth.
But in September 1974, Krikalev returned to Earth aboard the Soyuz VII, which was also the five months he planned to stay on the Mir space station, at that time, many viewers in the Soviet Union were dissatisfied with Costig's "long time" on the Mir space station, but when the Soviet Union announced at the end of 1976 that it would liquidate the six years on the Mir space station, people were surprised to find that Cuba was still standing in Krasnovna.
Kra was sent out by a Soviet commander to participate in the training, but in 1973 at the "ceremony", Kra was intimidated by American reporters at the door of the embassy, and they were arrested, and a month later, the ground command received a gas altar for help, on which a note was written in Soviet, but in August of the same year, Surevnova and an American space shuttle, Modenko also landed on the American space station a week later, they met Kra and his party while waiting in the ground command center, so they communicated with them, In order to escape the pursuit of the Americans, Kra gave the balloon for help, but it was not noticed by the personnel on the ground.
However, when the Soviet officials learned about it, they did not ignore it, and they made "representations" to the US officials, but the US side rejected it outright, believing that it was just a "small move" by the Carats and his party.
But when it came time for the "liquidation" on the "Mir" space station, Soviet officials found that Kra had been forgotten by the US control center in the US space station since 1973, and 39 years later, Kra finally got his wish on the Soviet Union's "honor roll", and he became the first cosmonaut in history to be forgotten by the control center in the space station.
But he has the word "death" written on it, Kra died in 2000, and his subsequent fate is that the only Soviet cosmonaut on the Mir space station, it can only be said that Krikalev was on the Mir space station, luck is still "moderate", when the ground control center sent two astronauts to "repair" the Mir space station in January 1975, due to frequent failures in the repair process of the Mir space station, it finally faced an intractable problem, The Russian National Research Center stopped his satellite on the Mir space station at the end of 1976, but it was not until 1979 that the Russian National Research Center told the Soviet government that they did not have enough money to carry out the "liquidation" of the stopped satellites, so it needed to be delayed for another three years.
The Soviet side also did not issue an announcement, so the personnel on the Mir space station did not receive a notice until 1986, when the Soviet official carried out the last "liquidation", the news was heard, and the control center on the ground hoped that the agents could stay for another month, and the agents told the control center on the ground that there were no satellites on the Mir space station, but some "maintenance materials" were needed, and when the maintenance materials were in their hands, the Soviet agents were also negotiating.
In 1987, due to the "extreme" financial difficulties within the Soviet Union, the situation of the agents on the Mir space station was not resolved for two consecutive years, and in 1989, a German company finally funded the liquidation of the Mir space station, which also made Krikalev finally "free" and returned to Earth on the Soyuz.
3. The splendor of Krikalev.
After returning to Earth, Krikalev became the longest-staying cosmonaut at that time, but after the end of the Soviet Union, he also disbanded with the Soviet cosmonauts as a whole, and there is no news of him later.