Book ID: CBB001553242

Voices of the Soviet Space Program: Cosmonauts, Soldiers, and Engineers Who Took the USSR into Space (2014)

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Gerovitch, Slava (Author)


Palgrave Macmillan


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: xiv + 305 pp.
Language: English

Despite the wealth of information and archival material that has become available in the years following the fall of the USSR, the history of the Soviet space program has been dominated by the accounts of a select few, such as the recent four-volume English translation of Russian rocket designer Boris Chertok. In this remarkable oral history, author and interviewer Slava Gerovitch helps to enrich and complicate space historiography by presenting interviews with the men and women who witnessed Soviet space efforts firsthand, from the cosmonauts themselves to the military officials who directed the program to the engineers who made real the grand ambitions of the USSR. Rather than comprising a monolithic "master narrative," these fascinating and varied accounts bring to light the often divergent perspectives, experiences, and institutional cultures that defined the Soviet space program.

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Review Paul Josephson (2016) Review of "Voices of the Soviet Space Program: Cosmonauts, Soldiers, and Engineers Who Took the USSR into Space". Technology and Culture (pp. 492-493). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Siddiqi, Asif A.
Burgess, Colin
Ness, Norman F.
Zimmermann, Robert
Volland, Nicolai
Treadwell, Terry C.
Concepts
Space travel; space flight
Space research and exploration
Space programs
Astronautics
Engineers, aerospace
Space stations
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
Places
Soviet Union
United States
Russia
North Korea
Germany
Europe
Institutions
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Project Apollo (NASA)
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