The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team Their Lives, Legacy, and Historical Impact /

• Main Authors: Burgess, Colin (Author), Hall, Rex (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Praxis, 2009.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Physics.; History.; Space sciences.; Astronomy.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; History, general.

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 Many previously-unpublished photographs of these “missing” candidates will also be included...

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.