Interkosmos

Colin Burgess' first book ("The Diggers of Colditz") was published in 1985. Since that time he has had twenty-three non-fiction books published in Australia and overseas, which includes three co-authored books for Springer-Praxis.  With only a few exceptions, all of his published books within the last fifteen years have been on spaceflight.  Since 2003 Colin has been the series editor and sometimes author for the Outward Odyssey series of twelve books for the University of Nebraska Press (UNP). Two of his co-authored spaceflight books for this publisher, "Into That Silent Sea" and "In the Shadow of the Moon," were finalists for the 2007 Eugene M. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature, given by the American Astronomical Society.  "In the Shadow of the Moon" was also named as "2009 Outstanding Academic Title" by Choice Magazine. Bert Vis has been following the manned space program since the first Apollo flight in 1968. In 1991 he was invited to visit the Yuriy Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Russia for the first time at the invitation of one of the unflown cosmonauts. Since then, he has visited the GCTC once or twice per year and attended two launches at the Baykoinur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (in 1997 and 2011). Over the years, he has interviewed more than 100 cosmonauts, many of whom never had been interviewed before and some never were after that. Vis is the co-author of two previous books with Springer Praxis, "Russia's Cosmonauts" and "Energiya-Buran".

History and Development of the Interkosmos program.- First to fly: Czechoslovakia's cosmonaut.- From Poland to Salyut-6.- Sigmund Jähn and Soyuz-30.- Bulgaria in space.- Hungary joins the space club. - A Vietnamese cosmonaut. - The Soviet Cuban Salyut mission.- From the steppes of Mongolia. - Romania continues the program.- Beyond Interkosmos. - Soviet-Indian mission. - A Syrian researcher on Mir. - Bulgaria's second flight. - Afghanistan's cosmonaut-researcher. - Chrétien in space again. - The Interkosmos program. - Appendices. - About the authors. - Index.