From Orbit to Earth: A Chronicle of Landings of Russian Manned Spacecraft
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From Orbit to Earth: A Chronicle of Landings of Russian Manned Spacecraft
99.99 €
79.99 €
The publication is a chronological information and visual series of 151 landings of manned spacecraft of the Soviet Union and Russia, starting from "Vostok" and ending with "Soyuz MS-16", made in 1961-2020. It describes the principles of search and rescue support of Soyuz flights, gives a brief history of the aerospace search and rescue service, indicates the participation of specialists in medical support of search and rescue operations in the areas where space crews landed and the peculiarities of specialists' work at the landing site. In addition, there is brief information about spacecraft crews, landing sites and circumstances related to the search and evacuation of astronauts. Illustrations are provided by a large number of photographs and crew emblems taken from a wide variety of sources for each landing separately. The book uses materials from the book "World Manned Cosmonautics", magazines "News of Cosmonautics" and "Russian Cosmos", websites of the State Corporation for Space Activities "Roscosmos" and the Flight Control Center (FCC), the Federal Directorate of Aerospace Search and Rescue, the TV studio "Roscosmos", photos and other materials from the Russian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation (RGANTD), Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) "Energia" named after S. P. Korolev, NASA.P. Korolev, NASA, Cosmonaut Training Center (CTC) named after Yuri Gagarin, B. Ingalls (NASA), V. Kuzmin and A. Pushkaryov (TASS), I. Marinin, from the archives of I. Borisenko, O. Boichuk, V. Bruss, V. Ermakov, Yu. Zheltonogin, A. Glushko, A. Gutnikov, A. Lazarenko, B. Ryabchikov, V. Taran, from the site www.spacefacts.de, extreme expedition "Find the Fallen Star", as well as materials from other open sources and the Internet. The authors of the publication were: Author of the idea and general editorial board: Y.M. Zheltonogin; Text authors: Y.M. Zheltonogin, A.Yu. Text authors: Y.M. Zheltonogin, A.Y. Lazarenko, N.P. Rusakov; Selection of illustrations and editing: A.V. Glushko, Y.M. Zheltonogin, A.Y. Lazarenko. Lazarenko.
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