From The Archives: Russian ICBM/Space Booster

60 years ago the cover of Aviation Week & Space Technology’s May 31, 1965, issue featured the three-stage Soviet missile, nicknamed Big Brother by Western observers, rolling through Moscow's Sverdlovsk Square during Russia’s V-E Day celebration that year (AW&ST May 17, pp. 26-31; May 24, pp. 20-23).

The Soviets described the missile as an intercontinental ballistic weapon and as a launch vehicle of the type that boosted Vostok crewed spacecraft into orbit. For more Russian missile photos, see pp. 56-57.

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