The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team

Author : Colin Burgess
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 038784824X
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team written by Colin Burgess and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-03-27 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Many previously-unpublished photographs of these “missing” candidates will also be included for the first time in this book.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.

Author : Colin Burgess
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team written by Colin Burgess and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Many previously-unpublished photographs of these ?missing?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 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.

Author : Gordon R. Hooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Cosmonaut Team written by Gordon R. Hooper and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Colin/ Hall Burgess (Rex)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
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Download or read book The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team written by Colin/ Hall Burgess (Rex) and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rex D. Hall
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387739750
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia's Cosmonauts written by Rex D. Hall and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-05 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There 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

Author : Rex Hall
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781852333911
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rocket Men written by Rex Hall and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-04-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first known work in the west dedicated to revealing the full story of the Vostok space missions, and the first fledgling steps off our planet. In Leaving the Planet authors Rex Hall and Dave Shayler review this Soviet demonstration of technological progress. The text examines both the developmental and operational aspects of the missions, which at the time were clouded in secrecy. This fascinating and important text features a significant amount of new material on the spacecraft, as well as the history, design and development of the launch vehicle. It also includes the full story of the men and women who trained for these missions, some of whom never flew.

Author : Vladimir Suvorov
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781560724025
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Manned Spaceflight written by Vladimir Suvorov and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the early era of the Russian space challenge. It is based on the notes of Vladimir Suvorov, a distinguished chief documentary cinematographer, who eyewitnessed and described in his top secret diary all these events from 1959 to 1969. He and his team made 35 films on the Russian conquest of space. He worked closely with the key scientists including Chief Designer Sergey Korolev, the President of the Academy of Sciences Mstislav Keldish and other high ranking military officers who were in charge of the Soviet space program. Many cosmonauts, especially the first ones like Yuri Gagarin, German Titov, et al., became his friends. This book is the first close up and personal account of these remarkable events.

Author : Piers Bizony
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802779611
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Starman written by Piers Bizony and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person in history to leave the Earth's atmosphere and venture into space. His flight aboard a Russian Vostok rocket lasted only 108 minutes, but at the end of it he had become the most famous man in the world. Back on the ground, his smiling face captured the hearts of millions around the globe. Film stars, politicians and pop stars from Europe to Japan, India to the United States vied with each other to shake his hand. Despite this immense fame, almost nothing is known about Gagarin or the exceptional people behind his dramatic space flight. Starman tells for the first time Gagarin's personal odyssey from peasant to international icon, his subsequent decline as his personal life began to disintegrate under the pressures of fame, and his final disillusionment with the Russian state. President Kennedy's quest to put an American on the Moon was a direct reaction to Gagarin's achievement--yet before that successful moonshot occurred, Gagarin himself was dead, aged just thirty-four, killed in a mysterious air crash. Publicly the Soviet hierarchy mourned; privately their sighs of relief were almost audible, and the KGB report into his death remains secret. Entwined with Gagarin's history is that of the breathtaking and highly secretive Russian space program - its technological daring, its triumphs and disasters. In a gripping account, Jamie Doran and Piers Bizony reveal the astonishing world behind the scenes of the first great space spectacular, and how Gagarin's flight came frighteningly close to destruction.

Author : Gordon Richard Hooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780951131220
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Cosmonaut Team written by Gordon Richard Hooper and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gordon R. Hooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780951131237
Total Pages : 211 pages
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Download or read book The Soviet Cosmonaut Team written by Gordon R. Hooper and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: