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Race to the Moon
Race to the Moon, This book tells the story of the Soviet and Russian lunar programme, from its origins to the present-day federal Russian space programme. Brian Harvey describes the techniques devised by the USSR for lunar landing, from the LK lunar module to the LOK luna, Race to the Moon has a rating of 4.5 stars
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  • Race to the Moon
  • Written by author Brian Harvey
  • Published by Springer-Verlag New York, LLC, June 2005
  • This book tells the story of the Soviet and Russian lunar programme, from its origins to the present-day federal Russian space programme. Brian Harvey describes the techniques devised by the USSR for lunar landing, from the LK lunar module to the LOK luna
  • When, in July 1969, the Americans decisively beat the Soviet Union in the race to put an astronaut on the moon, this event had profound historical, scientific and political implications. This book tells the story of the Soviet and Russian lunar programme,
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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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