The records principally document the Secretariat of the Czechoslovak Committee for the Research and the Peaceful Utilization of Space involving Czechoslovak research in the INTERKOSMOS program. This includes the participation of Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences scientific institutes but they also record the participation of Institutes of higher education, particularly Charles University, institutes based outside of Prague, state-controlled research institutes and the like. The records primarily consist of Committee statutes, members' orders, correspondence, minutes and reports from meetings at different levels including those of coordination bodies, record documents for individual tasks, reports on the discussion about specific collaboration of working groups, catalogs of working groups' problems, agreements on aerial photography, and financial material and personnel documents. They provide an overview of the areas of collaboration, working procedures of those individually involved in the broadly conceived international research project, and they provide a characteristic study of the involvement of a small country, specific results and research procedures, the nature of collaboration of countries under Soviet control and the overall role of politics in science.