: Rex D. Hall, Shayler David, Bert Vis
: Russia's Cosmonauts Inside the Yuri Gagarin Training Center
: Praxis
: 9780387739755
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: Astronomie
: English
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There is no competition since this is the first book in the English language on cosmonaut selection and training

Offers a unique and original discussion on how Russia prepares its cosmonauts for spaceflight.

Contains original interviews and photographs with first-hand information obtained by the authors on visits to Star City

Prov des an insight to the role of cosmonauts in the global space programme of the future.

R views the training both of Russian cosmonauts in other countries and of foreign cosmonauts in Star City
Table of Contents7
Foreword13
Author's preface16
Acknowledgements20
List of Illustrations22
Prologue28
The Cosmonaut Training Centre: birth and growth34
Simulators61
Other national and international facilities104
Survival training122
The Cosmonaut Group of the RGNII TsPK149
The Cosmonaut group of RKK Energiya176
Other Soviet and Russian cosmonaut selections189
Cosmonauts selected to fly the Buran Shuttle212
International training220
Joint programmes277
Zvyozdnyy Gorodok - the town338
Appendix 1 - Biographies of Key Personnel353
Appendix 2 - Current Deployment of the Russian CosmonautTeam361
Appendix 3 - The Volga Stratospheric Balloon programme364
Appendix 4 - Soviet/Russian International Manned Space Flights367
Appendix 5: The Full GMVK372
Appendix 6 - The Cosmonaut Team 1960-2005378
Bibliography398
Index401