Space Research Centers Search for New Frontier

摘要

Zhukovsky, russia, and kharkov, ukraine—As the Soviet Union began to unravel in the late 1980s and funding for space science began to decline, the central space facilities such as IKI— Moscow's Institute for Space Research (see main text)— were not the only centers to suffer. Across the Soviet Union, institutes supported directly and indirectly by the civilian and military space efforts suddenly found themselves without a patron.