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SPRINGER PRAXIS BOOKS INTERKOSMOS - COLIN BUR...

This book focuses on the Interkosmos program  which was formed in 1967  marking a fundamentally
new era of cooperation by socialist countries  led by the Soviet Union  in the study and
exploration of space. The chapters shed light on the space program that was at that time a
prime outlet for the Soviet Union's aims at becoming a world power. Interkosmos was a highly
publicized Russian space program that rapidly became a significant propaganda tool for the
Soviet Union in the waning years of communism. Billed as an international research-cosmonaut
imperative  it was also a high-profile means of displaying solidarity with the nine
participating Eastern bloc countries. Those countries contributed pilots who were trained in
Moscow for week-long guest missions on orbiting Salyut stations. They did a little subsidiary
science and were permitted only the most basic mechanical maneuvers.In this enthralling new
book  and following extensive international research  the authors fully explore the background
accomplishments and political legacy of the Interkosmos program. Through personal and often
highly revealing interviews with many of the participants they relate the very human story
behind this extraordinary but controversial space venture..

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