The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team Their Lives and Legacies /

The 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 Many previously-unpublished photographs of these "missing" candidates will also b...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Burgess, Colin (Author), Hall, Rex (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Praxis, 2009.
Edition:1st ed. 2009.
Series:Space Exploration,
Subjects:
Solar system.
Astronomy.
Aerospace engineering.
Astronautics.
History.
Space Physics.
Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences.
Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • Sparking the Space Age
  • A few good Soviet men
  • Russia's future spacemen
  • Training days
  • Selecting the first cosmonaut
  • "Poyekhali": A man in space
  • Vostok flights continue
  • The "missing" cosmonauts: Rumour and reality
  • First woman of space
  • A tragedy, and Gagarin's final flight
  • Pushing the limits
  • Orbits of co-operation and the end of an era.

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