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The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives, Legacy, and Historical Impact (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration): Their Lives and Legacies - Softcover

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Burgess, Colin

 
9780387848235: The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives, Legacy, and Historical Impact (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration): Their Lives and Legacies
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0387848231 ISBN 13: 9780387848235
Verlag: Praxis, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

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 Many previously-unpublished photographs of these 'missing' candidates will also be included for the first time in this book.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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Colin Burgess's first book, "The Diggers of Colditz" was published simultaneously in the U.K. and Australia in 1985. His next few books were on the Australian prisoner-of -war experience and then he turned his efforts to writing about his principal interest: human space exploration. Colin has written a number of books on the subject for the University of Nebraska Press and Springer-Praxis. The books he has written or co-authored for Springer-Praxis are "NASA's Scientist-Astronauts," "Animals in Space," "The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team," "Selecting the Mercury Seven," "Moon Bound," "Freedom 7," "Liberty Bell 7," "Friendship 7," "Aurora 7," and "Sigma 7". Colin also wrote "Interkosmos" (2016) with co-author Bert Vis, and a history of NASA's Group 5 and 7 astronauts with co-author David J. Shayler. In addition, he is the series editor and sometimes author for the Outward Odyssey series of books on the social history of space exploration for the University of Nebraska Press.

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Verlag
Praxis
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0387848231
ISBN 13 
9780387848235
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
436
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