SPACE EXPLORATION; COSMONAUTS. Multi-signed Soviet associati...

SPACE EXPLORATION; COSMONAUTS. Multi-signed Soviet association copy of: SHARPE, Mitchell R. Living in Space, Moscow: Mir Publishers, 1971, signed to initial leaf by Alexei Leonov, Vladislav Volkov, Andriyan Nikolayev, Valery Kubasov, Aleksei Yeliseyev, and Valery Ryumin; text in Cyrillic; original paper covers (somewhat worn), 8vo. [Alexei Leonov (1934-2019), first human to conduct a spacewalk (1965) and commander of the Soviet side of the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project; Vladislav Volkov (1935-1971), flight engineer on Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 11 - this signature dating to the narrow window between the book's January 1971 printing and his death in the Soyuz 11 decompression disaster in June of that year; Andriyan Nikolayev (1929-2004), pilot of Vostok 3 and commander of Soyuz 9, setting an early endurance record; Valery Kubasov (1935-2014), performed the first welding in space and later flew on Apollo-Soyuz; Aleksei Yeliseyev (b. 1934), flight engineer for the first crew transfer between docked spacecraft via spacewalk (Soyuz 4/5), a three-mission veteran; Valery Ryumin (1939-2022), long-duration specialist who logged over 370 days in orbit across four missions, including Salyut 6 and the final Shuttle-Mir docking mission (STS-91).]

Estimate:£200

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