Wayne Matson Editor (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Bound in black cloth with silver stamping on the front cover and the spine. 211 pages, all glossy. Handsome copy in fine condition. The binding is tight and strong. Clean, bright pages with no marks or writing. A scarce book on the history of Soviet/Russian space program. The title page lists Russian and American editors and translators. With nice color photos & illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Format is approximately 8.75 inches by 11.25 inches. 212 pages, Illustrations (many in color). Beautiful book packed with information about the Russian /Soviet space program. Includes space pioneers, Soyuz, Unmanned Ships, Salyut, The Mir Complex and Module, Energia-Buran, Cosmodromes, Training Programs, Moon Program, Mir Station, and more! It is reported that the author skipped town, leaving a lot of folks who ordered expensive space tours from him holding the bag. The Soviet space program comprised several of the rocket and space exploration programs conducted by the Soviet Union from the 1930s until its collapse in 1991. Over its 60-year history, this program was responsible for a number of pioneering accomplishments in space flight, including the first intercontinental ballistic missile (R-7), first satellite (Sputnik 1), first animal in Earth orbit, first human in space and Earth orbit (Yuri Gagarin), first woman in space and Earth orbit (Valentina Tereshkova), first spacewalk (Alexei Leonov), first Moon impact, first image of the far side of the Moon and unmanned lunar soft landing (Luna 9), first space rover (Lunokhod 1), first sample of lunar soil automatically extracted and brought to Earth (Luna 16), and first space station (Salyut 1). Notable records included the first interplanetary probes to fly by Venus and Mars, respectively, Venera 3 and Mars 2 to impact the respective planet surface, and Venera 7 and Mars 3 to make soft landings on these planets.

Washington, Cosmos Books, 1994, in-4°, 212 pp, hardback (bound in publisher's black cloth with silver title and decoration). No dust wrapper. Fine copy.