Rockets and People: Volume III: Hot Days of the Cold War

Name: Rockets and People: Volume III: Hot Days of the Cold War
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ISBN: 9781484842768

ISBN-10: 1484842766

ISBN-13: 9781484842768

Edition: N/A

Authors: Boris Chertok, Asif Siddiqi

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In this third volume of a planned four-volume set of memoirs, the famous Russian spacecraft designer Boris Chertok, who worked under the legendary Sergey Korolev, continues his fascinating narrative on the early history of the Soviet space program, from 1961 to 1967, arguably the peak of the effort. Chertok devotes a significant portion of the volume to the early years of Soviet human space flight in the early 1960's. These include a chapter on the Vostok and Voskhod programs, which left an indelible mark on early years of the "space race," a lengthy meditation on the origins and early missions of the Soyuz space program, the flight and death of cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov during the very…

Book details

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication date: 4/30/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 828
Size: 6.69" wide x 9.61" long x 1.87" tall
Weight: 3.520
Language: English