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This is the very first inside story of a key part of the Soviet manned space programme, detailing the development of Soviet/Russian spacesuits. The authors, as participants in the programme, provide details of events, previously unknown in the West, including their technical development. These space suits were an important part of the many Soviet firsts in the space race Yuri Gagarin s flight, Valentina Tereskova, the first woman in space, the first space walk by Alexei Leonov, and the first transfer on orbit from one spacecraft to another.§All previous books on Soviet manned space flights focus on the spacecraft and cosmonaut teams. This book provides a total overview of the successful Soviet/Russian development of space suits and subsequent space walks from Vostok to MIR and ISS.

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Book category Books in English Technology, engineering, agriculture Other technologies & applied sciences Space science

• Full title: Russian Spacesuits
• Author: Isaac Abramov
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 366
• EAN: 9781852337322
• ISBN: 185233732X
• ID: 04296759
• Publisher: Springer London Ltd
• Weight: 692 g
• Dimensions: 172 × 245 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. July 2003

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