The Soyuz Launch Vehicle The Two Lives of an Engineering Triumph
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 o...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
2013, 2013
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2013 |
| Series: | Space Exploration
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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