Cold War Space Sleuths
Subtitle: The Untold Secrets of the Soviet Space Program
By: edited by Dominic Phelan
Contributors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: Springer Praxis Books
Publisher: Springer New York; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781461430520
Subjects: Popular Science in Astronomy; Engineering; Astronautics; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics; Astronomy; Security Science and Technology
Description: <p><i>Cold War Space Sleuths</i> reads like a Cold War espionage novel, but the reality of the story about the dedicated amateur observers bent on finding out about Soviet spaceflight during the Cold War is just as exciting and absorbing. Told in the sleuth's own words, each chapter unfolds a piece of the hidden history of what was happening behind the Iron Curtain.</p><p>Coming from all over the world, including Russia itself, the amateur spies give first-hand accounts of often-forgotten aspects of the Cold War space race. Amongst others, their stories include:</p><p>- the history of the Kettering Group;<br>- looking inside the Russian archives;<br>- unsolved mysteries, such as why cosmonauts were airbrushed out of the official archives;<br>- reading between the lines of the Soviet media;<br>- the impact of Gorbachev's g<i>lasnost</i> on sleuthing;<br>- new research, including chapters by James Oberg, Asif Siddiqi, and Bart Hendrickx.</p>
Table of contents: title: <p>Foreword; title: Editor's introduction; title: Acknowledgements; title: Chapter 1: Space sleuths and their 'scoops' <i>Dominic Phelan</i>; title: Chapter 2: Hidden in plain view <i>Brian Harvey</i>; title: Chapter 3: The satellite trackers <i>Sven Grahn</i>; title: Chapter 4: Cosmonauts who weren't there <i>James Oberg</i>; title: Chapter 5: The view from Paris <i>Claude Wachtel and Christian Lardier</i>; title: Chapter 6: Orbital elements of surprise <i>Phillip Clark</i>; title: Chapter 7: Adventures in Star City <i>Bert Vis</i>; title: Chapter 8: Russian-language sleuthing <i>Bart Hendrickx</i>; title: Chapter 9: People and archives <i>Asif Siddiqi</i>; title: Chapter 10: Urban cosmonauts and space historians <i>David J. Shayler</i>; title: Contributors; title: Index.</p>.