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The first Soviet cosmonaut team : their lives, legacy, and historical impact
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The first Soviet cosmonaut team : their lives, legacy, and historical impact

Author: Colin Burgess; Rex Hall
Publisher: Berlin ; New York : Springer ; Chichester : Praxis Pub., ©2009.
Series: Springer-Praxis books in space exploration.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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.
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Genre/Form: Biography
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Colin Burgess; Rex Hall
ISBN: 0387848231 9780387848235
OCLC Number: 276223888
Description: xxxviii, 396 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Foreword.- Acknowledgements.- Authors' Preface.- The Space Race Begins.- A Few Good Soviet Men.- The First Enrollment.- Russia's Future Spacemen.- Training Days.- Selecting the First Cosmonaut.- "Poyekhali!": A Man in Space.- Pushing the Limits.- Gagarin, and the End of an Era.- The Missing Cosmonauts and Lost Cosmonauts.- Old Truths Revealed.- A Time for Reflection.- Glossary & Notes, List of Illustrations.- Appendixes.- List of first cosmonauts and other people involved in their selection, training and flights.- The space flights and EVAs etc. accomplished by the first group of cosmonauts.- Brief "Where Are They Now" summaries of the 20.- Other lists as required.- Bibliography and Other References.
Series Title: Springer-Praxis books in space exploration.
Responsibility: Colin Burgess and Rex Hall.

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This is a detailed and highly readable account of the history, training and experiences of the first group of twenty cosmonauts selected by the Soviet Union. There are many previously unpublished  Read more...

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