A Soviet-led international spaceflight program established in April 1967 to promote cooperation among socialist and aligned nations in space exploration and research, running until March 1994. It flew a long series of satellites carrying scientific payloads from partner nations, and later sent the first non-Soviet, non-American citizens to space aboard Soyuz flights to Soviet orbital stations, achieving numerous international firsts before the program ended with the Soviet Union's dissolution.
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Mission TypeInternational cooperative satellite and crewed-flight program 1 Launch DateDate of Interkosmos 1, the program's first satellite; the cooperative program itself was established in April 1967. OutcomeSuccessful and long-running; flew from 1967 to 1994, launching a long series of cooperative satellites and sending the first non-Soviet, non-American citizens into space. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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