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The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team

The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team

Their Lives and Legacies

by Rex Hall and Colin Burgess
Paperback
Publication Date: 23/12/2008

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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. Many previously-unpublished photographs of these "missing" candidates will also be included for the first time in this book.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.
ISBN:
9780387848235
9780387848235
Category:
Astronautics
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
23-12-2008
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
356
Dimensions (mm):
170x240x22mm
Weight:
0.74kg
Colin Burgess

Colin Burgess was born in suburban Sydney in 1947, To date, he has written or co-authored nearly forty books, covering the Australian prisoner-of-war experience, aviation, and human space exploration.

Colin still lives near Sydney with his wife Pat. They have two adult sons and three grandchildren.

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