Kosmonavty Rasskazyvay'ut [Title in Russian, Translated as Cosmonauts Tell]
Moscow: 1964. Presumed First Edition, First printing [1 of 50,000]. Hardcover. Text is in the Russian Language. 178, [6] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. DJ is worn, torn, soiled, and chipped (especially at top and bottom of spine). In the work there are articles by the first six Soviet Cosmonauts. Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. Gherman Stepanovich Titov (11 September 1935 – 20 September 2000) was a Soviet cosmonaut who, on 6 August 1961, became the second human to orbit the Earth, aboard Vostok 2. Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev (5 September 1929 – 3 July 2004) was a Soviet cosmonaut. He was an ethnic Chuvash. Pavel Romanovich Popovich (October 5, 1930 – September 29, 2009) was a Soviet cosmonaut. He was the 4th cosmonaut in space, the 6th person in orbit, and the 8th person in space. Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky (born 2 August 1934) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew three manned space mission space flights: Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, and Soyuz 31. He was also backup for Vostok 3 and Soyuz 37. Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is a retired Russian cosmonaut, engineer, and politician. She is the first woman to have flown in space, having been selected from more than 400 applicants and five finalists to pilot Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. In order to join the Cosmonaut Corps, Tereshkova was honorarily inducted into the Soviet Air Force and thus she also became the first civilian to fly in space. Contents [translated from the Russian]: Gargarin, I See Earth; Titov, A Day in Orbit; Nikolayev, First Group Flight; Popovich, To a Meeting with a Friend; Bykovsky, It starts with a Dream; and Tereshkova, How I became a seagull. Condition: Good / Fair.
Keywords: Cosmonauts, Yuri Gargarin; Gherman Titov, Andriyan Nikolayev, Pavel Popovich, Valery Bykovsky, Valentina Tereshkova, Orbit, Space Program, Vostok, Spacecraft
[Book #75828]
Price: $125.00