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Table of Contents of the Russians in Space CD-ROM

Personalia

1. XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries

• Alexander Zasyadko
• Karl Schilder
• Konstantin Konstantinov
• Nikolai Kibalchich
• Sergei Nezhdanovsky
• The Father of Russian Aviation

2. Giants of Cosmonautics

• Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
• Friedrich Tsander, a Space Research Romantic
• Yuri Kondratyuk
• Sergei Korolyov

3. Jet Propulsion Research Institute, the World's First

• Nikolai Tikhomirov
• Vladimir Artemyev
• Boris Petropavlovsky
• Georgy Langemak
• Ivan Kleimenov
• Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky

4. Unknown Names

• Georgy Shubnikov
• Konstantin Bushuev
• Boris Chertok
• Boris Rauschenbach
• Leonid Voskresensky

5. Chief Designers

• Mstislav Keldysh
• Mikhail Yangel
• Vladimir Chelomei
• Vassily Mishin

6. Those Who Made Rockets Fly

• The Chief Designer of Sputniks
• Vladimir Barmin
• The Chief Designer's Council
• Valentin Glushko
• Nikolai Pilyugin
• Those Who Made the History of Soviet Cosmonautics

7. They Taught Rockets to Fly

• Yuri Gagarin
• Hermann Titov
• Valentina Tereshkova
• Vladimir Komarov

Technology

1. The Soviet Thrust into Outer Space

• The V-2 in the Russian Skies
• Soviet Strategic Missiles
• R-2:Sergei Korolyov's First Rocket
• R-5:A Nuclear-Tipped Rocket
• Operation "Baikal"
• A Supermissile for a Superbomb

2. First Sputniks

• Sputnik-1
• The Dog Laika in Orbit
• A Space Lab

3. The Lunar Program

• First Flights to the Moon
• Soft-Landing on the Moon
• Amidst Lunar Rocks
• The Routes of Soviet "Lunokhods", the Moon-Rovers

4. Vostok - Voskhod - Soyuz

• Vostok-2
• The Family of Vostoks
• Voskhod-1
• Voskhod-2
• The Cosmos Claims its First Victim
• The First Docking of Manned Craft
• The Orbital Complex Mir

5. The Soviet Space Vehicle of the Shuttle Type

• The Energia Supercarrier Rocket
• The Orbital Ship Buran
• A Universal Space Platform
• The Energia-M

Programs

1.The History of Military Rocketry

• An Aerodynamic Laboratory in Leningrad
• A Jet Propulsion Research Team
• Rocketmen Behind Bars
• Sergi Korolyov's Saga
• The "Katyusha" Rocket Launcher

2. The Head and Source

• Spoils of War
• A Rocket Center near Moscow
• A Missile Testing Range at Kapustin Yar
• The Baikonur Cosmodrome
• Missile Shields and Arrows
• The Plesetsk Cosmodrome

3. Artificial Earth Satellites

• Forward, on to Mars!
• Venus' Enigmas
• Encountering a Comet, The Tailed One
• Sputniks of the Kosmos Series
• The Interkosmos Research Program

4. Research Programs

• Bion Satellites
• Okean Satellites
• Telecommunication Satellites
• Millions of Space Travelers
• Search-and-Rescue Satellites

5. Spy Satellites

• Spies or Peacemakers
• The Long Ears of Space Reconnaissance
• Military Radars Scouring the Earth
• Space Patrols

6. Piloted Programs

• The Vostok Program
• The Voskhod Program
• A Novel Version of the Soyuz
• The Manned Interkosmos
• The Apollo-Soyuz Project
• Unrealized Dreams
• Living in Orbit

7. Orbital Stations

• The Salyut Orbital Station
• The Woes and Anxieties of Salyuts
• The Mir Program

8. The Energia is Off

• The Energia-Buran Project
• Flights According to the Energia-Buran Program
• Buran Crews

9. Ground Control

• Ground Services
• Flight Control Centers
• The Space Research Institute
• The Future of Russian Cosmonautics

Basics

1. The Solar System

2. Cosmic Velocities

3. The Plesetsk Cosmodrome (interactive atlas)

4. Landing on Venus (computer graphic animation)

5. Booster Rockets

6. Spacesuits

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