03006nam a22005175i 4500 978-0-387-84824-2 DE-He213 20260521092011.0 cr nn 008mamaa 100301s2009 xxu| s |||| 0|eng d 9780387848242 99780387848242 10.1007/978-0-387-84824-2 doi 520 23 500.5 23 Burgess, Colin. author. The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team [electronic resource] : Their Lives, Legacy, and Historical Impact / by Colin Burgess, Rex Hall. New York, NY : Praxis, 2009. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Springer Praxis Books 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. 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 Many previously-unpublished photographs of these "missing" candidates will also be included for the first time in this book. It will be a detailed, but highly readable and balanced account of the history, training and experiences of the first group of twenty cosmonauts of the USSR. A covert recruitment and selection process was set in motion throughout the Soviet military in August 1959, just prior to the naming of America's Mercury astronauts. Those selected were ordered to report for training at a special camp outside of Moscow in the spring of 1960. Just a year later, Senior Lieutenant Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Air Force (promoted in flight to the rank of major) was launched aboard a Vostok spacecraft and became the first person ever to achieve space flight and orbit the Earth. PHYSICS. ASTROPHYSICS. ASTRONOMY. ASTRONAUTICS. HISTORY. PHYSICS. EXTRATERRESTRIAL PHYSICS, SPACE SCIENCES. POPULAR SCIENCE IN ASTRONOMY. AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY AND ASTRONAUTICS. HISTORY. Hall, Rex. author. SpringerLink (Online service) Springer eBooks Printed edition: 9780387848235 Springer Praxis Books http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-84824-2 Ver el texto completo en las instalaciones del CICY ZDB-2-PHA ddc ER 35151 35151 0 0 ddc 0 0 LE CICY CICY EL 2025-10-06 0 520 | 500.5 2025-10-06 08:44:23 2025-10-06 ER