Russia's Cosmonauts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Russia's Cosmonauts write by Rex D. Hall. This book was released on 2007-10-05. Russia's Cosmonauts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team
The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team write by Colin Burgess. This book was released on 2009-03-27. The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Many previously-unpublished photographs of these “missing” candidates will also be included for the first time in this book.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.
Pioneering Space
Pioneering Space - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pioneering Space write by James E. Oberg. This book was released on 1986. Pioneering Space available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Takes amateur spacefarers on a flight into the future.
Soviet Space Mythologies
Soviet Space Mythologies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Soviet Space Mythologies write by Slava Gerovitch. This book was released on 2015-06-18. Soviet Space Mythologies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the start, the Soviet human space program had an identity crisis. Were cosmonauts heroic pilots steering their craft through the dangers of space, or were they mere passengers riding safely aboard fully automated machines? Tensions between Soviet cosmonauts and space engineers were reflected not only in the internal development of the space program but also in Soviet propaganda that wavered between praising daring heroes and flawless technologies. Soviet Space Mythologies explores the history of the Soviet human space program within a political and cultural context, giving particular attention to the two professional groups—space engineers and cosmonauts—who secretly built and publicly represented the program. Drawing on recent scholarship on memory and identity formation, this book shows how both the myths of Soviet official history and privately circulating counter-myths have served as instruments of collective memory and professional identity. These practices shaped the evolving cultural image of the space age in popular Soviet imagination. Soviet Space Mythologies provides a valuable resource for scholars and students of space history, history of technology, and Soviet (and post-Soviet) history.
Starman
Starman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Starman write by Piers Bizony. This book was released on 2011-05-01. Starman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
