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DIARY OF A COSMONAUT: 211 DAYS IN SPACE (Air and Space)

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This is a fascinating and "from the hip" book about what its like to be in a flying tin can for more than half a year. The author gives candid, personal "real-life" views directly from his diary in this very profound book. Within 30 years, humans will be soaring to Mars...from this cosmonaut's frankness we will learn much about the psychology of detachment and coping, leading the way to a better and brighter future for all humankind in space. Highly recommended reading to anyone and everyone!

Highly recommend this great book! Thanks a lot!

It is still the only one frank and unique complete sorry written aboard the space station by a Russian cosmonaut Valentine Lebedev. If every astronaut would report the same way like Lebedev did in his space diary some 27 years ago, our world expenses for piloted space programs will start being justified.

This book provides an honest and in depth look into the montony and uselessness of space flight. Written by Russian cosmonaut Valentin Lebedev, the book is comprised of labored and slow moving text which often confuses and loses the reader. Laiden with many pages of technical jargon and unrelated facts, Lebedev's work is most uninteresting and proves to be a tiresome and tedious novel. Written in the format of a diary, the book does contain many personal and candid passages about Lebedev's experience in space; however, Lebedev's openess only serves to show the frivolessness of his long stint aboard the Solyut space station. In the end, the book's most exciting text proves to be Lebedev's diparture from space. The book portrays the wastefulness and uselessness of maintaining a space program of any sort and I would not reccomend reading its pages to my worst enemy.