Part 2: Viktor Ilyin, Would-Be Cosmonaut Assassin

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a motorcycle. We're back for part 2 of our series on Viktor Ilyin and the story leading up to the attempted assassination of Leonid Brezhnev in 1969.

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- Into the Cosmos, Asif Siddiqi and James Andrews
- The First Cosmonaut Team, Colin Burgess and Rex Hall
- Soyuz-4 and -5 crews perform docking, spacewalk between ships, Anatoly Zak

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Part 2: Viktor Ilyin, Would-Be Cosmonaut Assassin

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UNLOCKED Gleipnir (Ace Combat X)

PREVIEW Despoiler Class (w. 40K Badcast)

The Coup of OKB-1 (w. Joe Kassabian)

NASA Cuts w. Gene Mikulka

NASA Railroad & Soyuz City (w. Gareth Dennis)

PREVIEW Gleipnir (Ace Combat X)

Part 2: Viktor Ilyin, Would-Be Cosmonaut Assassin

Moon Tank: Lunokhod 1 (w. Victoria Scott)

Burn Space Down: The Starfish Prime Shot

*PREVIEW* The Lesson (1987)

Deep Sea & Space (w. Dr Alan Jamieson)

*UNLOCKED* Gleipnir (Ace Combat X)

*PREVIEW* Despoiler Class (w. 40K Badcast)

The Coup of OKB-1 (w. Joe Kassabian)

NASA Cuts w. Gene Mikulka

NASA Railroad & Soyuz City (w. Gareth Dennis)

*PREVIEW* Gleipnir (Ace Combat X)

PREVIEW The Lesson (1987)

UNLOCKED Gleipnir (Ace Combat X)

PREVIEW Despoiler Class (w. 40K Badcast)

PREVIEW Gleipnir (Ace Combat X)