The Soyuz Launch Vehicle : The Two Lives of an Engineering Triumph. 1st ed. 2013

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by Christian Lardier, Stefan Barensky

出版情報:

New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013

著者名:

• Lardier, Christian.
• Barensky, Stefan.
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シリーズ名:

Space Exploration ;

ISBN:

9781461454595 [146145459X]    

注記:

Part I: Soyuz in the East -- The V-2’s heir -- Designing the Semyorka -- The Council of Chief Designers -- Korolev’s Subsidiaries -- The Various Versions -- The Launch Bases -- Part II: Soyuz in the West -- A Fantasy Launcher -- East meets West -- Genesis of Starsem -- Europeans on the Steppe -- Russians in the Jungle -- Soyuz – Launcher of the Future.
The Soyuz launch vehicle has had a long and illustrious history. Built as the world's first intercontinental missile, it took the first man into space in April 1961, before becoming the workhorse of Russian spaceflight, launching satellites, interplanetary probes, every cosmonaut from Gagarin onwards, and, now, the multinational crews of the International Space Station. This remarkable book gives a complete and accurate description of the two lives of Soyuz, chronicling the cooperative space endeavor of Europe and Russia. First, it takes us back to the early days of astronautics, when technology served politics. From archives found in the Soviet Union the authors describe the difficulty of designing a rocket in the immediate post-war period. Then, in Soyuz's golden age, it launched numerous scientific missions and manned flights which were publicized worldwide while the many more numerous military missions were kept highly confidential! The second part of the book tells the contemporary story of the second li

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