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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: First Soviet Cosmonaut Team
    sub title: Their Lives, Legacy, and Historical Impact
  name:
    name part: Burgess, Colin.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Hall, Rex.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 356 p. 170 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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 Many previously-unpublished photographs of these “missing” candidates will also be included for the first time in this book.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.
  table of contents: Sparking the Space Age -- A few good Soviet men -- Russia’s future spacemen -- Training days -- Selecting the first cosmonaut -- “Poyekhali”: A man in space -- Vostok flights continue -- The “missing” cosmonauts: Rumour and reality -- First woman of space -- A tragedy, and Gagarin’s final flight -- Pushing the limits -- Orbits of co-operation and the end of an era.
  note: by Colin Burgess, Rex Hall.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Space sciences
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Aerospace engineering
  subject:
    topic: Astronautics
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
  subject:
    topic: History, general
  classification: QB495-500.269
  classification: 520
  classification: 500.5
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer Praxis Books
  identifier: 9780387848242
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-84824-2
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204180938.0
    record identifier: 978-0-387-84824-2