Salyut - The First Space Station

Triumph and Tragedy

Grujica S. Ivanovich

Salyut - The First Space Station provides a unique insight into the history of the world’s first functioning space station, the designers who developed it, and the crews assigned to operate it. The book places Salyut firmly in its historical and political context, and recounts the intrigues and difficult relationships between the personalities involved - politicians, TsKBEM managers, designers, generals, and cosmonauts.


The book describes the problems that had to be surmounted before the successful docking by the Soyuz 11 crew in June 1971, and there is a unique summary of the investigation into the cause of their tragic deaths as they returned to Earth more than three weeks later.


This remarkable book

• gives a comprehensive account of the longest manned space mission of the time
• draws on previously unpublished material
• details for the first time the people involved and the crews assigned to operate the space station and publishes the most detailed biographies of the Soyuz 11 cosmonauts in English
• investigates the causes of the tragedy and the ramifications for the future of human space exploration, and
• demonstrates how the legacy of Salyut continues to the present day.
  

  Table of Contents
  
  List of Illustrations
  Foreword
  Author's preface Acknowledgements
  

  1. From Almaz to Salyut
  2. DOS-1 crews
  3. Salyut in space
  4. Drama of the Granites
  5. Mutiny at the cosmodrome
  6. Dobrovolskiy, Volkov and Patsayev
  7. Home in orbit
  8. Science and conflicts
  9. The fire
  10. Drawing away from the station
  11. Cosmonauts dead on landing
  12. Farewell
  13. Thirteen seconds to eternity
  14. The fall of the Chief Designer
  15. Memories
  
  Glossary
  Personnel
  Bibliography
  Index
  
  
  
  Extent: 440 pages
  Binding: Paperback
  Publication Date: May 2008
  ISBN: 978-0-387-73585-6
  
  
  
  

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