The Rebirth of the Russian Space Program: 50 Years After Sputnik, New FrontiersSpringer Science & Business Media, 25.11.2007 - 358 sivua The rebirth of the Russian space program marks an important event: 50 years since the first Sputnik was launched on 4th October 1957. At that time, few could have imagined the dramatic events that lay head. The Soviet Union achieved all the great firsts in cosmonautics—the first satellite in orbit, the first animal in orbit, the first laboratory in orbit, the first probe to the Moon, the first probe to photograph its far side, the first soft landing on the moon, the first man in space, the first woman in space, the first spacewalk. Except one, the first human landing on the Moon. In 1964, the Soviet Union decided to contest the decision of the United States to put the first person on the Moon. The Soviet Union engaged in that race far too late, with divided organization, and made a gallant but doomed challenge to Apollo. Undaunted, the Soviet Union rebuilt its space program around orbiting stations, building the first one, Salyut, and then the first permanent home in space, Mir. The Soviet Union still achieved many more firsts: the first lunar rover, the first soft landing on Venus, the first soft landing on Mars, the first recovery of samples from the Moon by automatic spacecraft. |
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Scientific and applications programs | 77 |
the Soviet inheritance | 83 |
Resurs DK Sich M Monitor | 89 |
5 | 104 |
Launchers and engines | 139 |
Launch sites | 207 |
The design bureaus | 265 |
Resurgent the new projects | 315 |
Launchings 200006 337 | 336 |
Index | 345 |
139 | 352 |
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The Rebirth of the Russian Space Program: 50 Years After Sputnik, New Frontiers Brian Harvey Rajoitettu esikatselu - 2007 |
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Sivu ix - Don't worry, we'll have our day yet.' "63 But Korolev's day had passed. His triumphs had filled the front pages of the world's newspapers — the first satellite in space, the first man in space, the first woman in space, the first space walk.
Sivu 116 - Observing the enemy by photographs is perhaps the most obvious method of spying. Equally important is observing the other side's capacity and movements through its use of radio and radar.
Sivu 132 - ... by both the United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War. The United States operated two systems — Midas, from 1960-66 and the Defence Support Programme (DSP) satellite series from 1970.
Sivu 200 - Soviet space programme, its design bureaux and rocket engines. The bureau started life as plant 293 in Podlipki in 1943, directed by one of the early Soviet rocket engineers, Alexei M. Isayev (1908-71) and was renamed OKB-2 in 1952, being given its current name, KM KhimMach in 1974. Besides spacecraft, its work has concentrated on long-range naval, cruise and surface ballistic missiles and nuclear rockets and by the early 1990s had built over 100 rocket engines, mainly small ones for upper stages,...
Sivu 200 - The Isayev bureau was one of the least well-known of all the Soviet design bureaux and featured little in the early glasnost revelations about the Soviet space programme, its design bureaux and rocket engines. The bureau started life as plant 293 in Podlipki in 1943, directed by one of the early Soviet rocket engineers, Alexei M. Isayev (1908-71) and was renamed OKB-2 in 1952, being given its current name, KM KhimMach in 1974. Besides spacecraft, its work has concentrated on long-range naval, cruise...
Sivu 22 - the engine just fired." Soon, it was close enough so that we could see the deployed solar arrays. To me, it looked like some alien insect headed toward us. All of a sudden I really did feel like I was in a cosmic outpost anxiously awaiting supplies — and really hoping that my family did remember to send me some books and candy!
Sivu 134 - Prognoz has only ever used four of the seven slots allocated (336°E, the main one, but also 12°E, 80°E and 35°E) and these missions have been far from trouble-free. Requiring a heavier Proton booster, it was a much more expensive system than the Oko.
Sivu 107 - ... in on targets of special interest before retreating back to higher orbit. Small capsules were ejected for reentry, up to two on each mission. Pictures could then be...
Sivu 125 - Their main role is to provide accurate navigational fixes for the overseas submarine fleet of the Russian Navy, but they are also considered to have a key function in transmitting data from US P EORSATS both to maritime ground control in Noginsk and to ships and submarines.
Sivu 108 - Yantar was an original design, a fibreglass spacecraft, cone-shaped, over 8 m tall, with a long lens at the tapering end and an overall weight of 6.6 tonnes.