czechoslovakia welcomes its first cosmonaut, vladimir remik.together with alexey guborev. mid -eighties soviet union to manned flights. began to attract capitalist countries, demonstrating friendship and openness in the name of peaceful exploration of space, so an austrian, an englishman, a japanese and a representative of friendly india visited orbit. when we went to the store, this was 1982, before perestroika, there were huge lines for everything for our wives. together with his understudy rake sharma have already been at baikanur and watched the start of the next alliance with vladimir tetov and gennady strikalov on board. the next ship was supposed to fly a crew with a representative of india, but the unexpected happens. instead of the roar of engines there is silence, instead of a trail of fire there is a flame of fire, instead of a rocket there is a two-hundred-ton fire. the launch vehicle explodes right at the start, however. and in 1980, the first representative of the african race, cuban tamaya mendez arnalda, went into space. he beat