The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team will relate who these men were
and offer far more extensive background stories, in addition to
those of the more familiar names of early Soviet space explorers
from that group. Many previously-unpublished photographs of these
"missing" candidates will also be included for the first time in
this book. It will be a detailed, but highly readable and balanced
account of the history, training and experiences of the first group
of twenty cosmonauts of the USSR. A covert recruitment and
selection process was set in motion throughout the Soviet military
in August 1959, just prior to the naming of America's Mercury
astronauts. Those selected were ordered to report for training at a
special camp outside of Moscow in the spring of 1960. Just a year
later, Senior Lieutenant Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Air Force
(promoted in flight to the rank of major) was launched aboard a
Vostok spacecraft and became the first person ever to achieve space
flight and orbit the Earth.
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