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Title: Russia in Space: The Failed Frontier? by Brian Harvey ISBN: 1-85233-203-4 Publisher: Springer Verlag Pub. Date: 15 February, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Russia in Space
Comment: Harvey presents a good summary of all aspects of the Russian space program and an excellent summary of Russian activities since the Cold War ended. The author includes very thorough, item-by-item descriptions of each aspect of the manned program, international participation, and of military, scientific, communication, and other civilian satellites including their design, their launch vehicles, their engines, and their launch sites. Harvey documents the decline in the Russian program and comes down somewhat hard on the problems that the Russians have faced since the downfall of the Soviet regime. Yet, despite the decline, the book is hopeful about the longer-term reconstitution of the Russian space program. Harvey writes well and includes well-chosen anecdotes. Good photographs, tables, and maps; complete summary of Russian space launches from 1992 to 2000; six pages of notes and references; seven-page index. Highly recommended as a thorough, well-balanced, up-to-date treatise of the Russian space program. All levels.

Rating: 5
Summary: Russia may very well hold the key to space
Comment: For those who think that NASA is the only way to go into space, read this excellent book, and you will see that the Soviets, and now Russia, really have an incredible history, and a bright future ahead, providing they can cope with their financial problems. The quality and imagination of the russian space program is incredible, and it would be a invaluable loss if it had to collapse completely... because it may very well be this program that will get us out of our craddle.

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