Springer-Praxis Books in Space Exploration
7 total works
This absorbing book describes the long development of the Soviet space shuttle system, its infrastructure and the space agency's plans to follow up the first historic unmanned mission. The book includes comparisons with the American shuttle system and offers accounts of the Soviet test pilots chosen for training to fly the system, and the operational, political and engineering problems that finally sealed the fate of Buran and ultimately of NASA's Shuttle fleet.
* Previously unpublished photographs of various aspects of training and participation in spaceflights are included.
* Personal interviews with female cosmonauts and astronauts.
* Traces the history of female aviation milestones from the early part of the 20th Century to the current space programme.
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
Russia's Cosmonauts: Inside the Yuri Gagarin Training Center
by Rex Hall, David Shayler, and Bert Vis
