TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lardier,Christian
AU  - Barensky,Stefan
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - The Soyuz Launch Vehicle: The Two Lives of an Engineering Triumph 
T2  - Springer Praxis Books
SN  - 9781461454595
AV  - TL787-4050.22 
U1  - 629.1 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Springer New York, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Engineering
KW  - Popular works
KW  - Astronomy
KW  - Aerospace engineering
KW  - Astronautics
KW  - Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
KW  - Popular Science, general
KW  - Popular Science in Astronomy
N1  - 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
N2  - 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 onwards, and, now, the multinational crews of the International Space Station. This remarkable book gives a complete and accurate description of the two lives of Soyuz, chronicling the cooperative space endeavor of Europe and Russia. First, it takes us back to the early days of astronautics, when technology served politics. From archives found in the Soviet Union the authors describe the difficulty of designing a rocket in the immediate post-war period. Then, in Soyuz's golden age, it launched numerous scientific missions and manned flights which were publicized worldwide while the many more numerous military missions were kept highly confidential! The second part of the book tells the contemporary story of the second life of Soyuz, gathered from Western sources and interviews with key protagonists. It addresses the sensitive issue of the strategic choices that led to the establishment of Soyuz in French Guiana, describing the role of a few visionaries in Russia and in Europe who decided to leave their respective isolation behind and bring Syouz and Ariane together. In the final analysis, this book is a profound description of a formidable human adventure
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5459-5
ER  -