在20世纪60年代的太空竞赛中,前苏联第一颗卫星上天、第一名宇航员升空、宇航员第一次太空行走均处于领先地位,不禁陶醉在自己的“太空胜利”。1996年美国“双子星座号”飞船首次试验手动操纵太空对接获得成功,前苏联感到威胁在即,便赶紧研制新型联盟号飞船,企图赶在美国之前首创载人飞船太空对接的奇迹。 In the space racing of the 1960s, the first Soviet satellite, the first Soviet astronaut, took the lead in astronauts’ first astronaut flight and the astronaut’s first spacewalk, indulging in their own “space victory.” In 1996, when the first test of the Gemini spacecraft in the United States succeeded in manually manipulating space docking, the threat posed by the former Soviet Union soon pushed for the development of a new Soyuz spacecraft in an attempt to create the miracle of space docking of the manned spacecraft before the United States.