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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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