This absorbing book describes the long development of the Soviet space shuttle system, its infrastructure and the space agency’s plans to follow up the first historic unmanned mission. The book includes comparisons with the American shuttle system and offers accounts of the Soviet test pilots chosen for training to fly the system, and the operational, political and engineering problems that finally sealed the fate of Buran and ultimately of NASA’s Shuttle fleet.
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From the reviews: "Historians Hendrickx and Vis offer a history of the Soviet space shuttle and its attached rocket, one of the most powerful ever built. … This comprehensive history of the program, its technology, its designers, and its cosmonauts is an important contribution to the history of space technology, and is for those interested in space policy, engineering, systems, and history. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels." (A. M. Strauss, CHOICE, Vol. 45 (7), 2008) "Hendrickx and Vis begin with an overview of Soviet spaceplane research and development stretching back to rocketplane designs of the 1930s before moving on to describing the origins of Energiya and Buran themselves. … Special note must also be made of the many excellent photos in this book, most of which have not been published in the West before. … a vital addition to the literature on the USSR/Russian space programme, and Hendrickx and Vis are to be congratulated on a job very well done!" (Liftoff, Issue 248, November-December, 2008)
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The authors are two of the small number of space historians to have visited space facilities in Russia, getting to to know participants in programs like Energiya-Buran and performing hands-on research. The result of these efforts, ENERGIYA-BURAN, is a unique and comprehensive look at a fascinating chapter in the history of manned spaceflight. I can't imagine the subject being covered better than it is here.
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This book comprises most of the public information on the subject so far in a well written volume of over 500 pages, making it the authoritative reference on the Energiya-Buran program.
Many of the well-known soviet space program historians/authors provided the authors with infos, most photos are from V. Bis and www.buran.ru own files.
I find this book a must for any space buff like me. A true treasure trove of information!
Many of the well-known soviet space program historians/authors provided the authors with infos, most photos are from V. Bis and www.buran.ru own files.
I find this book a must for any space buff like me. A true treasure trove of information!
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I've followed the Soviet space program for more than fifty years, and this is the best book ever written on the Buran shuttle -- and the best book ever LIKELY to BE written.
The authors had access so wide and so deep into the project that the narrative they created probably tells the reader a lot more -- and in useful context -- than even the program's managers knew themselves as they were working on it. The authors can do that because of their own decades of investigation into the shadows of Soviet space mysteries (I've been privileged to be their colleague on many of those quests), and their superbly-honed skills at analysis, organization, and explanation.
This book is more than a look backwards -- it's a lesson in how big space projects can go astray, even if they achieve technological success, because their fundamental rationale for existing was faulty from the start. All space program managers around the world -- Russia, China, the US, Japan, Europe, etc -- NEED these lessons from such 'bad examples' as Buran, and this book makes it possible.
The authors had access so wide and so deep into the project that the narrative they created probably tells the reader a lot more -- and in useful context -- than even the program's managers knew themselves as they were working on it. The authors can do that because of their own decades of investigation into the shadows of Soviet space mysteries (I've been privileged to be their colleague on many of those quests), and their superbly-honed skills at analysis, organization, and explanation.
This book is more than a look backwards -- it's a lesson in how big space projects can go astray, even if they achieve technological success, because their fundamental rationale for existing was faulty from the start. All space program managers around the world -- Russia, China, the US, Japan, Europe, etc -- NEED these lessons from such 'bad examples' as Buran, and this book makes it possible.
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The Buran Bible
Let me start by stating the obvious--"Energiya-Buran: The Soviet Space Shuttle," is a volume in the superb Springer/Praxis series of books about space exploration. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Terry Sunday
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Must-Have Addition to Soviet/Russian Space Library
Hendreckx has written an in-depth analysis of the evolution of Soviet/Russian reusable spacecraft. Highly technical descriptions are used in some areas, yet Hendrecks provides the... Read more
Published on April 14, 2011 by Thomas A. Vasiloff
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Highly readable and comprehensive account...
...as are most books in the Springer/Praxis series.
This book not only covers the Energiya-Buran combination but every Soviet/Russian winged spacecraft design or concept... Read more
This book not only covers the Energiya-Buran combination but every Soviet/Russian winged spacecraft design or concept... Read more
Published on July 19, 2009 by Jim Davis
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The book delivers more than I expected
I anticipated dry information - as is found in many books of this type. Instead I got a well written, well organized account of a large portion of the Russian space program. Read more
Published on June 11, 2009 by J. L. Rufener
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Unique and comprehensive work
This book describes the origins, acomplishments, and the traggic fate of the Buran shuttle (along w/ the Energiya rocket). Read more
Published on November 2, 2007 by A. O. Fortuna
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