Soyuz 11 The Tragedy of the First Space Station Crew
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ePUB
Kopierschutz
Nein
Family Sharing
Nein
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
28.10.2026
Verlag
Oscar PublishingSeitenzahl
102 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
508 KB
Auflage
1. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781809271990
The first space station promised to change human exploration forever. In June 1971, three Soviet cosmonauts proved that people could live and work in orbit for weeks. Their extraordinary achievement would end in one of the most consequential tragedies in spaceflight history.
Soyuz 11: The Tragedy of the First Space Station Crew tells the complete story of the pioneering Soviet mission that occupied Salyut 1, the world's first space station, and transformed the future of spacecraft safety.
In this carefully researched account, aerospace author Bob Martin reconstructs the mission through its engineering, human experiences, scientific achievements and final catastrophe.
Inside this book, discover:
- The race to build the first space station: How Soviet ambitions, the Salyut programme, docking technology and an unexpected last-minute crew replacement shaped Soyuz 11.
- Life aboard Salyut 1: The daily routines, scientific experiments, mechanical failures, personal moments and extraordinary challenges of the first crew to inhabit an orbital station.
- The fatal return to Earth: A detailed reconstruction of the spacecraft's depressurisation, the critical valve failure, the crew's final moments and the investigation that followed.
- The legacy of Soyuz 11: How the tragedy led to new pressure-suit requirements, spacecraft modifications and safety principles that influenced later human spaceflight.
From the first days aboard Salyut to the silent landing in Kazakhstan, this volume combines technical clarity with the human history of three pioneering cosmonauts: Georgi Dobrovolski, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev.
Experience a defining chapter of the Space Age and discover how one remarkable mission helped shape the future of living and working beyond Earth.
Part of the Aerospace Missions series by Bob Martin, written for readers passionate about space exploration, engineering, aviation history and the people behind humanity's greatest missions.
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