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Overview: This remarkable book gives a comprehensive account of the longest manned space mission of the time. It details for the first time the people involved and the crews assigned to operate the first space station Salyut. The book portrays the selection of the crews, dramatic flights and tragedy of Soyuz 11. Biographies of the Soyuz 11 cosmonauts are published for the first time in English. The book relates discussions between the key personnel, and investigates the causes of the tragedy. The book ends with memories of all those affected by the DOS program and the tragedy of Soyuz 11 and looks forward to a continuation of the historic mission of Salyut.

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Triumph and Tragedy

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Viktor IPatsayev 1933-1971 Georgiy TDobrovolskiy 1928-1971 Vladislav - photo 10

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Viktor I.Patsayev (1933-1971)

Georgiy T.Dobrovolskiy (1928-1971)

Vladislav N.Volkov (1935-1971)

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Viktor Patsayev, Georgiy Dobrovolskiy and Vladislav Volkov

and to the thousands of designers, technicians and workers who participated in the development of the pioneering Salyut space station, and thereby in the beginning of a new era in the history of mankind.

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Front cover

A technically accurate painting by artists Andrey Sokolov and Aleksey Leonov of a Soyuz spacecraft about to dock with the Salyut space station.

Rear cover

The main picture shows cosmonauts Patsayev (left), Dobrovolskiy and Volkov. The top two pictures on the right show Dobrovolskiy (left) and Volkov on board the Salyut space station in space; the Soyuz 11 descent module immediately following its landing; and an attempt to resuscitate Dobrovolskiy.

Dedication

Viktor I Patsayev, Georgiy T.Dobrovolskiy and Vladislav N.Volkov

Chapter 1

The TsKBEM building at Kaliningrad, Moscow

Sergey Korolev

Vasiliy Mishin

A depiction of the Soyuz spacecraft.

Leonid Brezhnyev with the crews of the Soyuz 4/5 joint mission

Vladimir Chelomey

Dmitriy Ustinov

`Space Minister' Sergey Afanasyev.

Two versions of the Almaz station

Dmitriy Kozlov

Early planned Soyuz variants

A depiction of the giant MKBS space station

Konstantin Feoktistov.

Konstantin Bushuyev

Boris Chertok

Boris Raushenbakh

Academician Mstislav Keldysh

The Ni lunar rocket was Mishin's dream

Aleksey Kosygin and Leonid Brezhnyev with the Soyuz 9 crew

Yuriy Semyonov

Detail of DOS-1 and Soyuz ferry

A model of a Soyuz about to dock with DOS-1

Engineers work at the main control panel of DOS-1

Chapter 2

General Nikolay Kamanin

The TsPK at Zvyozdniy Gorodok ('Star Town') near Moscow

TsKBEM fight engineers assigned to DOS-1

Introductory training for DOS-1 cosmonauts

Classroom work

The Soyuz 9 crew in space.

A cosmonaut in the DOS-1 simulator

DOS-1 undergoing final system tests

Relaxing playing chess.

Training with photo-equipment

Yeliseyev, Shatalov and Rukavishnikov.

The `first crew' for DOS-1 in the Soyuz simulator

The `second crew'

The `third crew'

The `fourth crew'

A group portrait of the first three DOS-1 crews

Chapter 3

The Soyuz 10 crew in training

The Soyuz 10 crew in the Soyuz simulator

The Soyuz 10 crew after 14 hours in the simulator

A cosmonaut tradition in Gagarin's office.

The Soyuz 10 crew attend functions

General Kerim Kerimov

The DOS-1 station in the Assembly-Test Building at Baykonur.

Final tests of DOS-1

DOS-1 on its Proton launch vehicle.

Preparing Soyuz 10 at Baykonur

The Soyuz 10 crew pose in front of their launch vehicle

Vladimir Shatalov

Shatalov in training.

Georgiy Beregovoy

Shatalov demonstrates how two Soyuz should dock

Shatalov after Soyuz 4's landing

Shatalov's Soyuz 8 mission

Aleksey Yeliseyev

Vladimir Komarov

The wreckage of Soyuz 1

Komarov's ashes are interred in the wall of the Kremlin

Yeliseyev in training

The crews of the Soyuz 4/5 joint mission.

A depiction of the external transfer from Soyuz 5 to Soyuz 4

Yeliseyev after Soyuz 4's landing

Yeliseyev's Soyuz 8 mission.

Nikolay Rukavishnikov.

Chapter 4

A rail transporter delivers Soyuz 10 to the pad

The rocket erected on the pad

The Soyuz 10 crew give a press conference at Baykonur

The first three DOS-1 crews at the pad

The Soyuz 10 crew report for launch.

Minutes before lift off

Speculative about what DOS-1 might look like

The main room of Flight Control Centre in Yevpatoriya

The NIP-16 complex in Yevpatoriya

The tracking ship Academician Sergey Korolev

The Soyuz/Salyut docking system

The Soyuz 10 crew after landing

The Soyuz 10 crew at the Kremlin

Chapter 5

The `first crew' for Soyuz 11

Aleksey Leonov, Valeriy Kubasov and Pyotr Kolodin in training

Leonov, Kubasov and Kolodin in the Soyuz simulator

Members of the first and second crews for Soyuz 11

Leonov recommends a chess move

Kubasov's medical

Pyotr Kolodin

The State Commission announces the Soyuz 11 crew change.

Dobrovolskiy, Patsayev and Volkov's press conference

The Soyuz 11 crew at the pad

Mishin with the Soyuz 11 crew

Chapter 6

Georgiy Dobrovolskiy

Dobrovolskiy's family

Dobrovolskiy in training

Training for Soyuz 11

Vladislav Volkov.

Volkov's family

Volkov in training

The crews of the `group flight' of Soyuz 6/7/8 in October 1969

Three Soyuz spacecraft undergoing testing at Baykonur

Volkov's Soyuz 7 mission

The Soyuz 7 crew after landing

Vladislav Volkov,

Volkov in training

Volkov and Dobrovolskiy

Viktor Patsayev,

Patsayev as a student and with his daughter

Patsayev's family

Patsayev in training.

Patsayev in training.

Dobrovolskiy, Patsayev and Volkov in training.

The Soyuz 1 1 crew in training

The Soyuz 11 crew in Lenin's office

Chapter 7

Dobrovolskiy, Patsayev and Volkov at the pad

The Soyuz 11 crew on top of the service structure.

Soyuz 11 moments before ignition

In the Flight Control Centre at Yevpatoriya

A depiction of a Soyuz about to dock with DOS-1

A view of DOS-1 from Soyuz 11

Patsayev and Volkov just after entering Salyut

Members of the TsUP at Yevpatoriya watch TV from Salyut

An inside view of Salyut

Part of Salyut's control panel

The flight engineer's controls on Salyut.

Chapter 8

Dobrovolskiy and Volkov on Salyut

The Anna-Ill gamma-ray detector.

The Orion astrophysical telescope

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