Pictures of moscows moon rocket images that were to be among the soviet unions most closely guarded state secrets. And pictures of cosmonauts 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 and always set the pace but in the end they ultimately lost the 20th centurys most prestigious race. I am. 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 hippest. All decisions on the Space Program were classified top secret including the moon program. Should one day program much
It a vaguely worded law that could be broadly applied now in china they have a charge known as picking quarrels and provoking troubles not is the go to weapon of the authorities when they want to go after dissidents human Rights Groups journalists the worry is the same thing could happen here weve been hearing from journalist groups here in hong kong today who have carried out a survey 150 journalists were were questioned 87 percent of them said they now have grave fears about freedom of speech the future of freedom of speech in hong kong and some journalists are saying they might well quit the profession rather than remaining as a journalist we heard also of course on thursday from the g 7 Foreign Ministers the Foreign Ministers representing the advanced economies of the world they urged china to rethink this security law that call has been ignored but they also pointed out and its important to to mention this the by doing this china is breaching not just hong kongs basic law the mini
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