The Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Cosmonaut biographies
Author: Gordon R. Hooper
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 376
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The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team
Author: Colin Burgess
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-03-27
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 038784824X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe First Soviet Cosmonaut Team will relate who these men were and offer far more extensive background stories, in addition to those of the more familiar names of early Soviet space explorers from that group. Many previously-unpublished photographs of these “missing” candidates will also be included for the first time in this book. It will be a detailed, but highly readable and balanced account of the history, training and experiences of the first group of twenty cosmonauts of the USSR. A covert recruitment and selection process was set in motion throughout the Soviet military in August 1959, just prior to the naming of America’s Mercury astronauts. Those selected were ordered to report for training at a special camp outside of Moscow in the spring of 1960. Just a year later, Senior Lieutenant Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Air Force (promoted in flight to the rank of major) was launched aboard a Vostok spacecraft and became the first person ever to achieve space flight and orbit the Earth.
The Soviet Cosmonaut Team
Author: Gordon R. Hooper
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 344
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Author: Jamie Doran
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2011-05-01
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0802779506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfiles the life of the Soviet cosmonaut who became the first man to orbit the Earth in 1961, including his childhood as a farm boy, how the Soviet Union used him after the historic feat, and the mysteries surrounding his death.
Russia's Cosmonauts
Author: Rex D. Hall
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-10-05
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 0387739750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is no competition since this is the first book in the English language on cosmonaut selection and training Offers a unique and original discussion on how Russia prepares its cosmonauts for spaceflight. Contains original interviews and photographs with first-hand information obtained by the authors on visits to Star City Provides an insight to the role of cosmonauts in the global space programme of the future. Reviews the training both of Russian cosmonauts in other countries and of foreign cosmonauts in Star City
Disasters and Accidents in Manned Spaceflight
Author: Shayler David
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2000-05-17
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9781852332259
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere, Dave Shayler examines the hurdles faced by space crews as they prepare and embark on space missions. Divided into six parts, the text opens with the fateful, tragic mission of the Challenger crew in 1986. This is followed by a review of the risks that accompany every space trip and the unique environment in which the space explorer lives and works. The next four sections cover the four parts of any space flight (training, launch, in-flight and recovery) and present major historical incidents in each case. The final section looks at the next forty years beyond the Earth's atmosphere, beginning with the International Space Station and moving on to the difficulties inherent in a manned exploration of Mars.
Interkosmos
Author: Colin Burgess
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-11-19
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 331924163X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on the Interkosmos program, which was formed in 1967, marking a fundamentally new era of cooperation by socialist countries, led by the Soviet Union, in the study and exploration of space. The chapters shed light on the space program that was at that time a prime outlet for the Soviet Union's aims at becoming a world power. Interkosmos was a highly publicized Russian space program that rapidly became a significant propaganda tool for the Soviet Union in the waning years of communism. Billed as an international “research-cosmonaut” imperative, it was also a high-profile means of displaying solidarity with the nine participating Eastern bloc countries. Those countries contributed pilots who were trained in Moscow for week-long “guest” missions on orbiting Salyut stations. They did a little subsidiary science and were permitted only the most basic mechanical maneuvers. In this enthralling new book, and following extensive international research, the authors fully explore the background, accomplishments and political legacy of the Interkosmos program. Through personal and often highly revealing interviews with many of the participants they relate the very human story behind this extraordinary but controversial space venture..
Space Stations
Author: Ernst Messerschmid
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-06-29
Total Pages: 573
ISBN-13: 3662039745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConstruction has begun on the International Space Station (ISS)the largest and most complex extraterrestrial construction project ever. This book on space stations, and the ISS in particular, describes component technologies, systems integration, and the potential utilization of these stations. Co-authored by Messerschmid, one of the first German astronauts, it addresses students and engineers in space technology, but will interest astronomy and space enthusiasts as well.
The Gagarin Mystery
Author: Tibor Vajda
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 0595414435
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn 12th April, 1961, 27-year-old Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin became the first human to venture into space. His one orbit flight made him the most famous man in the world. He was declared Columbus of the Cosmos. Gagarin received the Hero of the Soviet Union medal, was promoted to full Colonel and was appointed Deputy Head of the Star City cosmonaut centre. When Leonid Brezhnev deposed Khruschev, the new leaders were hostile to Gagarin. He died suddenly aged only 34. Was his death a tragic accident or did he have to die because he fought against the cruelties of the communist regime? President Vladimir Putin still prevents publishing the truth that would prove how Brezhnev and associates dealt with individuals who threatened to unmask their part in the tragedy of Gagarin's death.
