Soviet and Russian Cosmonautics. Memoirs of a Leading Designer on Soviet Projects

In the book of V. Bugrov, the whole history of domestic cosmonautics (manned programs) is compactly presented in inextricable connection with the history of the country"s leading enterprise in manned OKB programs? 1 - RSC Energia. S.P. Queen. The activities of S.P. Koroleva, who preceded the formation of OKB? 1. The author considers all the main projects of the enterprise and in more detail the projects of expeditions on Mars, to the Moon and "Energy - Buran", which he directly engaged in the design departments and as a leading designer. When considering projects, the most significant events are distinguished, which significantly influenced, according to the author, on their successes and failures. An analysis of the causes and motives of the occurrence of most such events. The involvement of leaders of different levels, their positive and negative role is shown. The problems that arose in the development of large -scale products are described in detail, and measures to improve the process of their creation. Some early -ripening projects are criticized and their harmful influence on the development of astronautics is traced. The facts of falsification of the history of astronautics and attempts to belittle a huge positive role in the formation of Soviet cosmonautics S.P. are especially considered. Koroleva, V.P. Mishina and M.K. Tikhonravova. The achievements of the Soviet and Russian periods are compared and the reasons for the difference are considered. Assessment of promising Russian projects is given. The possibility of continuing the work begun by the Korolev according to the interplanetary manned program to create a ship to perform long -term autonomous flights in the interplanetary space. It is proposed to determine the development of such a ship the main and only purpose of the Russian manned program and a plan of priority specific actions is given. Briefly the author talks about his hobbies. The book will probably be interesting to everyone who is interested in astronautics.
The author has gone from an axial on a culmin "to flight trials in many projects. In 1956-1961 Participant in the development of the winged rocket "storm" and the complex "Dal" in the OKB named after S.A. Lavochkina. In the OKB? 1 - RSC Energia, a direct developer of expeditions on Mars and the Moon, cosmonaut tester, 25 years old leading designer for the largest Soviet projects complexes for expedition to the moon and Energy - Buran, the head of the security department of manned space flights , leading designer for conversion. Honored Engineer of Russia, Honored Veteran of the RKK "Energia"