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ColinBurgess
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posted 08-20-2014 07:33 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for ColinBurgess   Click Here to Email ColinBurgess     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Early notice that Bert Vis and I are now contracted to write a book on the manned Interkosmos program for Springer Books, New York.

All going well, the book should be published sometime around mid-2015. Hopefully it's a book a few people having been waiting to see published. We have already gained some terrific insights into the whole program, and Bert will be contributing several interviews he and Rex Hall conducted with the Interkosmonauts or their Soviet crew members over recent years.

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posted 08-21-2014 06:47 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for RobertB   Click Here to Email RobertB     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Colin, will you be going into any detail regarding the reception and further careers of the Interkosmos members?

For example, Muhammed Faris was not "just" a Syrian air force colonel when he joined the Syrian rebels in 2012.

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posted 08-21-2014 07:49 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for ColinBurgess   Click Here to Email ColinBurgess     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Robert, the one thing I love doing in preparing my books is to thoroughly research the lives of the subjects, which includes chronicling their later lives and careers, so take it from me that each of the Interkosmos guest researchers will have their full stories told. I also hope to include recent photos of them all where I can.

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posted 08-24-2014 05:47 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for eurospace   Click Here to Email eurospace     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Looking forward to this very interesting book, Colin. Actually, my interest with the Russian space programme started with the Intercosmos flights, so I am very keen to know more about it.

(If you need help with the Germans [Jähn, Köllner, and the backup backups], just let me know.)

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posted 05-15-2015 05:42 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ColinBurgess   Click Here to Email ColinBurgess     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Bert Vis and I are just completing the manuscript for this book, and will be submitting it for editing in 3-4 weeks. If all goes according to plan, it should be released by Springer-Praxis sometime around September.

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posted 05-15-2015 05:48 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for cspg   Click Here to Email cspg     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Cool! Thanks for the heads-up.

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posted 07-20-2015 09:57 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ColinBurgess   Click Here to Email ColinBurgess     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I'm pleased to announce that this book has undergone the editing process and is now back in the hands of Springer Books. They will send it out for production and printing - a process that will likely take a couple of months. So I'd envisage (barring any technical problems) that it will be available sometime around October.

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posted 08-29-2015 05:04 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for cspg   Click Here to Email cspg     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Interkosmos: The Eastern Bloc's Early Space Program
by Colin Burgess and Bert Vis
This book focuses on the Interkosmos program, which was formed in 1967, marking a fundamentally new era of cooperation by socialist countries, led by the Soviet Union, in the study and exploration of space. The chapters shed light on the space program that was at that time a prime outlet for the Soviet Union's aims at becoming a world power.

Interkosmos was a highly publicized Russian space program that rapidly became a significant propaganda tool for the Soviet Union in the waning years of communism. Billed as an international "research-cosmonaut" imperative, it was also a high-profile means of displaying solidarity with the nine participating Eastern bloc countries. Those countries contributed pilots who were trained in Moscow for week-long "guest" missions on orbiting Salyut stations. They did a little subsidiary science and were permitted only the most basic mechanical maneuvers.

In this enthralling new book, and following extensive international research, the authors fully explore the background, accomplishments and political legacy of the Interkosmos program. Through personal and often highly revealing interviews with many of the participants they relate the very human story behind this extraordinary but controversial space venture.

  • Softcover
  • Springer, November 9, 2015
  • ISBN 978-3-319-24161-6

ColinBurgess
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posted 10-05-2015 06:15 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for ColinBurgess   Click Here to Email ColinBurgess     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
At this stage it looks as if the Interkosmos book will likely be released in November as planned. It really is a spectacular looking book, judging by the cover art and a vast number of colour photographs within, many of which have never been seen before.

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posted 11-07-2015 05:28 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for hermit   Click Here to Email hermit     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Due to delays in layout, production is running late but the package will be signed off this weekend and then be sent for printing. With luck, copies might appear before Christmas.

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posted 11-21-2015 07:28 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for eurospace   Click Here to Email eurospace     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Amazon.co.uk lists a release date as of 18 December 2015.

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posted 11-24-2015 09:53 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ColinBurgess   Click Here to Email ColinBurgess     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
It might be a bit of a squeeze, but if all goes as planned in printing the book it may well be released about then. For the space philatelists out, Jim Reichman wrote a special illustrated chapter for this book, backgrounding the history of space stamps and covers associated with the Interkosmos program.

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posted 11-25-2015 04:32 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for cspg   Click Here to Email cspg     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Amazon emailed me about the release date: mid-January to mid-February 2016.

jjknap
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posted 11-25-2015 06:47 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jjknap   Click Here to Email jjknap     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I received an email from Amazon that it will arrive 12/22.

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posted 12-18-2015 05:00 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for ColinBurgess   Click Here to Email ColinBurgess     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Now released and available from Amazon.

jjknap
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posted 12-18-2015 11:08 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jjknap   Click Here to Email jjknap     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Just received my copy from Amazon!

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posted 12-18-2015 03:35 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for hermit   Click Here to Email hermit     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Confession: Owing to page constraints, we had to knock out more than 150 illustrations!

ColinBurgess
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posted 12-18-2015 04:59 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ColinBurgess   Click Here to Email ColinBurgess     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
But don't despair - there are still well over 300 black and white and full colour photos in the book, many of which have never been seen before.

jjknap
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posted 12-18-2015 05:22 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jjknap   Click Here to Email jjknap     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I was going to say, there are a lot of photos in the book

hermit
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posted 12-31-2015 07:53 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for hermit   Click Here to Email hermit     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I received my copy from Springer today and it looks pretty damned good.

johntosullivan
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posted 02-15-2016 06:06 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for johntosullivan   Click Here to Email johntosullivan     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Got my copy yesterday (Valentines day present from the GLW!) Great looking book. Can't wait to start reading it.

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