A Series of Russian publications on Extraterrestrial Life, Medicine, Space, Spacecraft and the Planets.

[NASA TECHNICAL TRANSLATION]

A Series of Russian publications on Extraterrestrial Life, Medicine, Space, Spacecraft and the Planets.

Washington D. C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1972-3

Large 8vos., 13 vols; orange stapled/glued card wraps lettered to both covers with NASA’s logo to the upper covers; many of the publications containing tables, charts, diagrams, illustrations, and black and white photographs (some folding); the occasional scuff or spot, but otherwise excellent, near-fine examples all. 

The NASA Technical Translations (NASA TT) were a series of foreign-language documents which related to the study of aerospace, space science, and aeronautics. Beginning in 1959, the year after NASA was founded, the publications ran until 1988, with the aim of disseminating scientific and technical knowledge in line with the National Aeronautics and Space Act. Subjects ranged from Cybernetics to Space Mechanics and Rocket Technology, as well as the study of Radiation, Cosmic Rays, Geo and Plasma physics and Extraterrestrial Life. Representing the efforts of those who were set on expanding global research - especially Soviet - these 13 volumes range from May 1970, less than a year after the moon landings, to June 1973. 

The publications comprise: 

• R. G. Perel’man : Goals and Means in the Conquest of Space (May 1970) 

• Yu. I. Yefremov : The First Panoramic Views of the Lunar Surface. Volume 2 (February 1971)

• N. S. Boganik : Toward and Understanding of the Laws Governing the Development of the Earth’s Crust and the Geothermal Fields of the Lithosphere (February 1972) 

• U. I. Moisayenko, L. S. Sokolova, and V. Ye. Istomin : Electric and Thermal Properties of Rocks (February 1972)

• V. P. Dadykin : Growing Plants in Space (April 1972)

• A. A. Imshenetskiy : Extraterrestrial Life and its Detection Methods (May 1972)

• M. S. Bobrov : The Rings of Saturn (June 1972)

• G. A. Skuridin : Space Physics and Spacecraft (June 1972)

• A. A. Lavnikov : Fundamentals of Aviation Medicine (July 1972)

• N. A. Agadzhanyan : Medicine and Space (February 1973) 

• Yu. K. Khodarev et al. [Ed.] : Mathematical Methods of Modeling in Space Research (February 1973) 

• G. A. Skuridin : Study of the Moon and Planets by Spacecraft (April 1973) 

• A. I. Men’shov : Space Ergonomics (June 1973) 

A series of fascinating scientific Russian documents, published in America, representing scientific and astronomical research during the Cold War. Some of the volumes appear to be unrecorded in NASA’s archive, others are completely unrepresented institutionally.