<p>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 Many previously-unpublished photographs of these 'missing' candidates will also be included for the first time in this book.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.</p>

The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives and Legacies (Springer Praxis Books)

Biographies & Memoirs

BURGESS, COLIN

Hall, Rex

Historical

Praxis

<p>A chronicle of the rise of the Soviet space program, drawing on recently released archival information. Features photographs from people who worked in Star City, published for the first time in the West. Reveals how the Soviet Union got ahead so quickly in the space race. Softcover.</p>

The Rocket Men : Vostok and Voskhod, the First Soviet Manned Spaceflights

Science & Math

Astronomy & Space Science

Springer

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