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The Cosmonaut Group of the RGNII TsPK

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The history of the development of the Vostok programme and the politics behind the agreement to fly a human in space was examined in The Rocket Men, published by Springer-Praxis in 2001.1 This book looks at the selection of the cosmonauts who would fly Soviet and Russian space craft.

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(2005). The Cosmonaut Group of the RGNII TsPK. In: Russia’s Cosmonauts. Springer Praxis Books. Praxis. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73975-5_5

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