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Salyut: The First Space Station: Triumph and Tragedy
Salyut: The First Space Station: Triumph and Tragedy, This remarkable book gives a comprehensive account of the longest manned space mission of the time. It details for the first time the people involved and the crews assigned to operate the first space station Salyut. The book portrays the selection of the , Salyut: The First Space Station: Triumph and Tragedy has a rating of 4.5 stars
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Salyut: The First Space Station: Triumph and Tragedy, This remarkable book gives a comprehensive account of the longest manned space mission of the time. It details for the first time the people involved and the crews assigned to operate the first space station Salyut. The book portrays the selection of the , Salyut: The First Space Station: Triumph and Tragedy
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  • Salyut: The First Space Station: Triumph and Tragedy
  • Written by author Grujica S. Ivanovich
  • Published by Springer-Verlag New York, LLC, May 2008
  • This remarkable book gives a comprehensive account of the longest manned space mission of the time. It details for the first time the people involved and the crews assigned to operate the first space station Salyut. The book portrays the selection of the
  • This remarkable book is a unique insight into the people involved in the development of the Salyut space station and the crews assigned to operate it. It describes the rotation between the crews, analyses the decision to send the back-up crew on Soyuz 11
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List of Illustrations     xi
Foreword     xix
Author's preface     xiii
Acknowledgements     xxvii
From Almaz to Salyut     1
Early days     1
Chelomey and the Kremlin     5
Almaz     7
OKB-1's space stations     11
The conspiracy     17
DOS is born     24
DOS-1 crews     31
Star Town     31
The first crews     33
Revised appointments     36
The dismissal of Shonin     41
Salyut in space     49
Final preparations     49
Space station launch     50
Expert in space rendezvous     61
"Interesting things attract me"     68
Between space and bikes     82
Drama of the Granites     87
Into space     87
Flight control     94
Ninety millimetres from Salyut     100
'Mom' doesn't release 'dad'     104
The night return     106
"Show me that designer"     111
Mutiny at the cosmodrome     113
Options     113
Shading on the lung     116
Mishin, Volkov and Leonov     124
Journalists and the new crew     128
Dobrovolskiy, Volkov and Patsayev     135
Between the sea and sky     135
"Space does not forgive mistakes"     140
"The universe was alive"     146
"I would like so much to explore"     158
Home in orbit     173
Lift-off     173
The first orbits     179
"The station is huge"     181
Space laboratory     189
Science and conflicts     197
Early days     197
Medicine on Salyut     197
Space astrophysics     203
The first conflicts     207
Notes from the station     212
The next crews     217
The fire     219
"The curtain"     219
"The smoke isn't being produced any more"     223
Space birthday     228
One thousand orbits     233
Tracking ships     237
Drawing away from the station     239
Final days     239
"The green corner"     240
"Do not worry"     246
"The hatch is not hermetically sealed!"      256
Cosmonauts dead on landing     261
Soyuz landing operations     261
The silence of the cosmonauts     268
Code '111'     272
"Dobrovolskiy was still warm"     276
"It is intolerably painful!"     278
Farewell     281
The announcement     281
The funeral     282
Western speculations     294
Thirteen seconds to eternity     297
Commission     297
Decompression     297
The valve     302
The agony     304
Could the cosmonauts have survived?     305
From Vera Patsayeva's notes     311
People and omissions     316
The fall of the Chief Designer     325
Salyut's last days     325
Lost at launch     325
The Almaz-1 drama     329
DOS-3: an improved station     332
The dismissal of Vasiliy Mishin     342
Memories     351
Vasiliy Pavlovich Mishin     351
Vladimir Nikolayevich Chelomey     355
Boris Yevseyevich Chertok     356
Boris Viktorovich Raushenbakh     357
Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov      358
Yuriy Pavlovich Semyonov     360
Nikolay Petrovich Kamanin     362
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov     363
Aleksey Stanislavovich Yeliseyev     366
Nikolay Nikolayevich Rukavishnikov     369
Aleksey Arkhipovich Leonov     372
Valeriy Nikolayevich Kubasov     376
Pyotr Ivanovich Kolodin     378
Reminiscence and legacies     379
Zarya and Zvezda     385
Glossary     391
Personnel     395
Bibliography     413
Index     419


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