With goals of maintaining the International Space Station and performing various experiments, the Expedition 8 Crew aboard the Russian Space Vehicle, Soyuz 7, launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on October 18, 2003 and docked at the Space Station October 20, 2003. The two are expected to reside at the station until April 29, 2004. At this site, visitors can read biographies of the...

RussianSpaceWeb.com is an excellent source of information about current and past Russian astronautical technology. The historical part of the site is divided into five sections, including rockets, spacecraft, centers, people, and chronology. Each of these sections is very comprehensive, with plenty of material on almost every significant event since the birth of rocketry. There are lots of...