The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives and Legacies (Springer Praxis Books)
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (500 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0387848231 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 356 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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B. Morris said Pulling back the veil of the Soviet space program.. A truly impressive book on the early Soviet Cosmonauts. For decades the history of the early American astronauts has been well known but even after the fall of Communism in the old Soviet Union little has been written about the early Soviet cosmonauts. To date this is without question the best book on these men.The book covers a rather surprising amou. "Immaculately researched and full of touching personal details." according to A. Domanska. The book is full of photos (candid and official), beautifully laid out and full of (unlike other earlier books on the subject) meticulously researched and full of citations and further reading pointers.It is a series of mini biographies of the cosmonauts in chronological order, and explains a lot of the "lost cosmonaut" legends (which were just that, . Space Sleuthing At Its Best Absolutely masterful chronicle of the careers and fates of the earliest Soviet cosmonauts, as determined by a team of dogged space sleuths who over decades had to penetrate Soviet secrecy and coverups and outright falsifications to figure out the human stories behind the headlines. I'm celestially proud to have been one of their colleagues and a contr
Those selected were ordered to report for training at a special camp outside of Moscow in the spring of 1960. Many previously-unpublished photographs of these “missing” candidates will also be included for the first time in this book.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. Just a year later, Senior Lieutenant Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Air Force (promoted i
46 (10), June, 2009)“This is a much needed reference work on the early history of the Soviet cosmonaut team. Z. Kiss, Choice, Vol. That the pictures in this volume are of the highest quality only adds to its value.” (Asif Siddiqi, Quest, Vol. All undergraduate and public libraries." (J. From the reviews:"In this book … Burgess (Australian spaceflight historian) and Hall (British education consultant) provide a wealth of interesting information on the first group of 20 Soviet cosmonauts. The authors have done an exemplary job in putting together a vast amount of information into a coherent volume