03596nam a22005415i 4500 978-1-4614-3052-0 DE-He213 20210618014404.0 cr nn 008mamaa 121120s2013 xxu| s |||| 0|eng d 9781461430520 978-1-4614-3052-0 10.1007/978-1-4614-3052-0 doi TL787-4050.22 TC1-1800 TRP bicssc TEC002000 bisacsh TRP thema TTDS thema 629.1 23 Cold War Space Sleuths [electronic resource] : The Untold Secrets of the Soviet Space Program / edited by Dominic Phelan. 1st ed. 2013. New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013. XIX, 300 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Space Exploration Foreword -- Editor's introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Space sleuths and their 'scoops' Dominic Phelan -- Chapter 2: Hidden in plain view Brian Harvey -- Chapter 3: The satellite trackers Sven Grahn -- Chapter 4: Cosmonauts who weren't there James Oberg -- Chapter 5: The view from Paris Claude Wachtel and Christian Lardier -- Chapter 6: Orbital elements of surprise Phillip Clark -- Chapter 7: Adventures in Star City Bert Vis -- Chapter 8: Russian-language sleuthing Bart Hendrickx -- Chapter 9: People and archives Asif Siddiqi -- Chapter 10: Urban cosmonauts and space historians David J. Shayler -- Contributors -- Index. Cold War Space Sleuths 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. 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: - the history of the Kettering Group; - looking inside the Russian archives; - unsolved mysteries, such as why cosmonauts were airbrushed out of the official archives; - reading between the lines of the Soviet media; - the impact of Gorbachev's glasnost on sleuthing; - new research, including chapters by James Oberg, Asif Siddiqi, and Bart Hendrickx. Aerospace engineering. Astronautics. Astronomy. System safety. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/T17050 Popular Science in Astronomy. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q11009 Security Science and Technology. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P31080 Phelan, Dominic. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9781461430513 Printed edition: 9781461430537 Space Exploration https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3052-0 ZDB-2-PHA ZDB-2-SXP Physics and Astronomy (SpringerNature-11651) Physics and Astronomy (R0) (SpringerNature-43715)