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From: hammen@puff.UUCP (Zaphod Beeblebrox)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: MIR  APOGEE/PERIGEE CORECTIONS
Message-ID: <661@puff.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Mar-86 23:51:27 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  2 23:51:27 1986
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Summary: soviet space program references

In article <1426@decwrl.DEC.COM>, biro@pipa.DEC writes:
> 
> .......
>
> Also several people have asked about a good reference source for
> Soviet Space Programs. The U.S. Government  Printing  Office has 
> 3 good books that they sell.
> 
> SOVIET SPACE PROGRAMS:
> PART 1.  dealing with launch vehicles and sites and goals
> PART 2.  Manned Space Programs and Space Life Sciences
> PART 3.  Unmanned space activities
> 
> Part 1 is out of print, Part 2 was advable when I got my copy
> about a year ago, and Part 3 at that time was not yet advable.  
> 
> john

Another excellent source of information are the books by James Oberg,
'Red Star In Orbit' and 'The New Race For Space.'  Oberg is a NASA employee
who works one of the consoles at the Johnson Space Center.  He provides
detailed pictures, evidence and descriptions of the Soviet space program.
Some of his material may be flawed, but I generally find it better reading
(not necessarily more factual) than the US government books.  There are a 
couple of older books, 'The Kremlin and the Kosmos', by Nicholas Daniloff,
and 'The Russian Space Bluff' by some Russian defector I can't remember.
There are also books by Peter Smolders and Evgeny Riabchenkov (sp?) which
are again rather old (10-15 yrs.) but nonetheless interesting.

Robert J. Hammen		{seismo,allegra,ihnp4}!uwvax!puff!hammen
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