Soyuz program (Communist World)

The Soyuz program, also known as Project Soyuz, was the third human spaceflight program carried out by the Soviet Aviation and Space Commission (SAKK), the Soviet Union government space agency, and the program was responsible for the landing of the first humans on Earth's Moon in 1969. First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Vostok programme which put the first Soviets in space, Soyuz was later dedicated to Niktia Krushev national goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961, address to Politburo. Vostok was followed by the two-man Project Voskhod (1962–66). The first manned flight of Soyuz was in 1968.