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Vis Bert, Shayler David J., Hall Rex D. Russia's Cosmonauts: Inside the Yuri Gagarin Training Center
Publisher: Springer in association with Praxis Publishing, 2005. 420 pages. Language: English.

This is the first book in the English language on cosmonaut selection and training. It offers a unique and original discussion on how Russia prepares its cosmonauts for spaceflight; contains original interviews and photographs with first-hand information obtained by the authors on visits to Star City; provides an insight to the role of cosmonauts in the global space programme of the future; reviews the training both of Russian cosmonauts in other countries and of foreign cosmonauts in Star City.
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