[net.space] Books on the Russian Space Program

mink@cfa.UUCP (Doug Mink) (03/05/86)

I found in my library a book entitled "Survival in Space," by Vladimer
Lebedev(writer and space physician) and Yuri Gagarin (you might remember him).
Published in 1969 by Bantam Books, it purports to tell "how we will live in
space" as the Russians see it.  Thumbing through it, I see a lot of
anecdotes about the early days of the Russian space program, more quotes
from Tsiolkovskii than in an American book, and a few quotes from Marx
and Lenin.  It appears to strongest on cosmonaut training and
psychological reactions to space; I found it quite interesting.

			-Doug Mink, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
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