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Acknowledgements ix
Prologue xi
List of figures xv
List of tables and maps xix
List of abbreviations and acronyms xxi
Origins of the Soviet lunar programme 1
The 1956 Leningrad conference 3
Introducing the father of the Soviet moon programme: Mikhail Tikhonravov 4
Soviet space programme before Sputnik 7
The postwar mobilization 9
References 13
The first moon probes 15
1958 proposals for moon rockets 17
An upper stage: enter Semyon Kosberg 19
A tracking network 21
Only hours apart: the moon race, autumn 1958 22
First Cosmic Ship 25
The big red lie? 28
Second Cosmic Ship 30
The Automatic Interplanetary Station 34
First moonshots 42
References 43
Planning the lunar landing 45
Vostok Zh: a conceptual study 45
The Soyuz complex 47
Joint flight to the moon proposed by Kennedy, agreed by Khrushchev 52
Revising the Soyuz complex 54
Soviet decision to go to the moon, August 1964 56
Changing ways to go 59
Korolev's N-1 60
R-56 61
UR-700 62
The final route decided 65
Russia's three ways to go 66
References 67
The soft-landers and orbiters 69
Origins 69
New lunar rocket 70
Ye-6 lunar lander 72
The tracking system 75
Luna 4 and the 1963, 1964 rounds of launchings 77
Introducing Georgi Babakin 79
Return to the moon 81
Lunar farside photography 82
Korolev dies: the Mishin succession 87
'A major step toward a manned landing' 88
The landers: a summary 94
Now for lunar orbit 96
The lunar photography missions 101
Ye-6S and Ye-6LF 106
Finally, communications tests 106
Orbiters, in conclusion 108
References 108
The first cosmonauts to the moon 111
The rocket for circling the moon: the UR-500K Proton 111
The rocket for the landing: the N-1 116
Building the N-1 120
A spaceship to circle the moon 128
Zond's ancestor: Soyuz 129
The spaceship to circle the moon: the L-1, Zond 133
The spaceship for orbiting the moon: the Luniy Orbitalny Korabl, LOK 141
The spaceship to land on the moon: the Luniy Korabl, LK 143
Russia: the moonwalk 149
Tracking 153
The cosmonaut squad 154
Russia's moon team: selection for around-the-moon and landing missions 163
L-1 selection for around-the-moon mission (October 1968) 164
Moon-landing team 164
Final cosmonaut selection for landing mission 168
Cosmonauts selected to land the LK on the moon 169
Alexei Leonov, the first man on the moon 171
Returning to Earth: the Soviet lunar isolation unit 179
References 181
Around the moon 183
L-1 Zond 5 184
Soyuz flies again 186
Last try: Zond 6 188
Climax 190
The mission 192
What now? 196
Soyuz 4-5 rehearse lunar docking, spacewalking 199
N-1 on the pad 205
'Like Stalingrad, but without the Stuka dive bombers' 207
Russia's last challenge 209
Winding down the L-1 Zond around-the-moon programme 215
Testing the LK and the LOK 219
Cancellation of the moon-landing programme 222
Redirection: the N1-L3M plan 222
Fourth flight of the N-1 225
The plotters move: cancellation of the N1-L3M programme 227
A real alternative: space stations 230
The race that never was 232
References 236
Samplers, rovers and orbiters 239
Luna 16 240
The genius of Okhotsimsky 243
Designing a lunar rover 247
Into the Sea of Rains 252
'Lunokhod, not Lunostop' 258
Now to the lunar highlands 262
Along the rille of Le Monnier Bay 264
Moon orbiters 272
Orbits of Luna 19, 22 274
Return to the Sea of Crises 275
Ye-8 series: scientific outcomes 278
Winding down the programme of automatic lunar exploration 279
Achievements of the Soviet automatic programme for lunar exploration 284
References 285
Return to the moon 287
After N-1: a new Soviet moon programme? 287
Moonbase Galaktika, 1969 288
Moonbase Zvezda, 1974 289
The Soviet/Russian lunar programme after 1976 290
The revival? Luna Glob 291
Looking back at the old moon 293
References 295
List of all Soviet moon probes (and related missions) 297
Where are they now? Location of Soviet moon probes 298
In lunar orbit 300
Returned to Earth from the moon's surface 300
Returned to Earth after circling the moon 300
Bibliographical note and bibliography 301
Bibliographical note 301
Bibliography 303
Index 309
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