Pictures of moscows moon rocket images that were to be among the soviet unions most closely guarded state secrets. And pictures of cars minots training for a moon landing in the socalled star city near moscow the soviet union was determined to beat the United States in the race to put a man on the moon a race that would cost russian and american lives. The russians had always set the pace but in the end they ultimately lost the 20th centurys most prestigious race. Bag. Are. Opened in 1957 Baikonur Cosmodrome was moscows gateway to the stars. After the launch of several sputnik satellites and unmanned moon probes in the late 1950 s. The whole world assumed that the soviets would also be using baikonur to send cosmonauts to the moon. There were certainly concrete plans but nothing was leaked there were no official statements nothing to indicate the soviet unions plans step of. Got the truth about all decisions on the Space Program are classified top secret including the moon program that
Itself. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says while hes sorry for the loss of life, it is unavoidable, claiming hamas is using cities as human shields. Carl goss has more. Theres been no letup this morning. Weve watching the goz sa skyline as we see pluming coming up, israeli bombs explode on targets below. We see the vapor trails in the air as hamas and Islamic Jihad militants fire off rockets towards israel. Lets bring you up to speed with the developments. Breaking this morning, an aerial drone from gaza infiltrated israel and was shot down by a patriot missile. Across gaza the conflict quickly escalating. Israeli air strikes hit three Training Facilities and buildings of hamas military wing. Thousands who live on the gaza strip now fleeing. Including hundreds of palestinian americans rushing to get out. It was really scary. I wasnt used to it, especially since i live in america. Reporter over the weekend the Israeli Military confirms boots in the ground with its commandos raiding