GSKA

GSKA (Russian: Гражданской советской космическое агентство), is a government agency of the Soviet Union which is responsible for the Soviet space program an general aerospace research. The agency was formally established in early 2015 by president Yulia Tymoshenko.

The formal headquarters of GSKA are located in Moscow, but other facilities exist across the USSR for various purposes. These include Mission Control (located in Korolyov, Russia), the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (in Star City, Russia), the Baikonur Cosmodrome (in the union city of Baikonur), and the Plesetsk Cosmodrome (in northern Russia).