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Salyut 6 KRT-10 Radio-Telescope Flown Logbook

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Historical Memorabilia Start Price:450.00 USD Estimated At:1,800.00 - 2,200.00 USD
Salyut 6 KRT-10 Radio-Telescope Flown Logbook
<B><I>Salyut 6</B></I></B></I> <B>KRT-10 Radio-Telescope Annotated Instruction Logbook Flown and Used in Space.</B></I> 100 pages, 7.5" x 10.5". The loose-leaf pages are held together with three metal rings. Sections of the logbook were printed between November 29, 1978 and June 28, 1979. This logbook, copiously illustrated with diagrams, provides detailed instructions for assembling and testing the KRT-10 radio telescope. There are numerous pencil notations by cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakhov and Valery Ryumin. After the flight, this logbook was presented to Dr. Boris Vasilievich Afonin, flight training instructor. A photocopy of a letter from Afonin is present.<BR><BR>The <I>Salyut 6</B></I> Space Station was launched into orbit by the Soviet Union on September 29, 1977. On February 25, 1979, Soyuz 32 was launched with cosmonauts Lyakhov and Ryumin aboard. They arrived at <I>Salyut 6</B></I> the next day. On June 28, 1979, <I>Progress 7</B></I> was launched by a Soyuz rocket with the KRT-10 radio telescope and, most assuredly, this instruction logbook, as part of its cargo. It docked with Salyut 6 two days later. <I>Progress 7</B></I> undocked on July 18th and the 10 meter diameter parabolic dish aerial of the KRT-10 unfurled as it was released from the docking tunnel between <I>Progress 7</B></I> and <I>Salyut 6,</B></I> where it was installed by the <I>Salyut 6</B></I> crew using this instruction logbook. Work with the KRT-10 radio telescope was completed on August 9th and when cosmonauts Lyakhov and Ryumin attempted to jettison the aerial, it became entangled with some of <I>Salyut 6</B></I>'s external projections. On August 15th, the cosmonauts "spacewalked" and freed the entangled KRT-10. During this time they no doubt made entries into this logbook. Lyakhov and Ryumin returned to Earth on August 19, 1979 aboard <I>Soyuz 34</B></I>.<BR><BR>The 175 day mission of <I>Soyuz 32/34</B></I> was marked by a pair of 15 kopeck Soviet postage stamps. The fully-unfurled radio telescope antenna and <I>Salyut 6</B></I> are depicted. <I>Soyuz 34</B></I> is shown docked to <I>Salyut 6</B></I>'s forward port with Ryumin approaching the rear of the station in order to push the antenna away. Lyakhov is standing on a platform by <I>Salyut 6</B></I>'s transfer compartment hatch. Portraits of Lyakhov and Ryumin are at the upper left. An unused pair of these stamps is affixed inside the cover of the logbook, signed on the selvage in bright pink ink, in Russian, "<I>Vladimir Dzanibekov/ 11.11.79.</B></I>" Dzanibekov, aboard <I>Soyuz 27,</B></I> had docked with <I>Salyut 6</B></I> on January 11, 1978, returning to Earth aboard <I>Soyuz 26</B></I> on January 16th. For almost six days, for the first time ever, three spacecraft were docked together in orbit. This KRT-10 Radio-Telescope annotated instruction logbook, flown and used in space, would be a magnificent addition to a space collection.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Books & Catalogs (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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