N.S. Korolyova, Ya.N. Kostyuk. S.P. Korolyov. Marking the 100th Anniversary/Miniature photo album Moscow: Nauka, 2007, 80x94 mm, 254 pages, 254 monochrome illustrations, circulation: 2, 000 copies.
The book edition was commissioned by the Energia Rocket-and-Space Corporation. It is the first miniature book dedicated to Sergey Korolyov, the outstanding rocket engineer and designer, the founder of the Russian practical astronautics. In the high point of the photo album are little-known documents and rarest photos, mainly from the family archive of N.S. Korolyova published in a three-volume edition “Father”. It is a kind of a photographic biography of a Man who went the thorny way towards the stars and didn’t manage one thing only: to go spacewards. The attachment includes medals, envelope, book plate issued specially to mark the 100th anniversary of Sergey Korolyov. One copy of the book was included into the freight brought in August 2007 by the transport spacecraft Progress M-61 to the International Space Station where it is kept as a part of the space library.
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