The Soyuz Launch Vehicle The Two Lives of an Engineering Triumph /

• Main Authors: Lardier, Christian (Author), Barensky, Stefan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Engineering.; Popular works.; Astronomy.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Popular Science, general.; Popular Science in Astronomy.

The Soyuz launch vehicle has had a long and illustrious history. Built as the world's first intercontinental missile, it took the first man into space in April 1961, before becoming the workhorse of Russian spaceflight, launching satellites, interplanetary probes, every cosmonaut from Gagarin o...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Soyuz in the East
• The V-2’s heir
• Designing the Semyorka
• The Council of Chief Designers
• Korolev’s Subsidiaries
• The Various Versions
• The Launch Bases
• Part II: Soyuz in the West
• A Fantasy Launcher
• East meets West
• Genesis of Starsem
• Europeans on the Steppe
• Russians in the Jungle
• Soyuz – Launcher of the Future.