Russia’s Cosmonauts Inside the Yuri Gagarin Training Center /

• Main Authors: Hall, Rex D. (Author), Shayler, David J. (Author), Vis, Bert (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Praxis, 2005.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Physics.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Popular works.; Astronomy.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Popular Science, general.; Popular Science in Astronomy.

With the aid of unique photographs, first-hand interviews and historical resources, Rex Hall, Dave Shayler and Bert Vis explain, for the very first time, how Russian citizens have been selected and trained to fly in space, and how these procedures have changed during the past 40 years. The authors a...

Table of Contents:

• The Cosmonaut Training Centre: birth and growth
• Simulators
• Other national and international facilities
• Survival training
• The Cosmonaut Group of the RGNII TsPK
• The Cosmonaut group of RKK Energiya
• Other Soviet and Russian cosmonaut selections
• Cosmonauts selected to fly the Buran Shuttle
• International training
• Joint programmes
• Zvyozdnyy Gorodok — the town.