All previous books on Soviet manned space flights focus on the spacecraft and cosmonaut teams. This book provides a total overview of the successful Soviet/Russian development of spacesuits and subsequent space walks from Vostok to MIR and ISS.

First publication by russian authors detailing the history of the development of soviet/russian spacesuits Written from the unique perspective of scientists directly involved in the development of spacesuits from the very beginning of the programme Includes material described from first-hand experience which is unavailable elsewhere, since the developments described were cloaked in secrecy at the time and many of the relevant archives have been lost Describes not only the detailed technical development of the spacesuits, but the ongoing programme and evolution of their design, together with the administrative politics involved for the team who made it happen

Zusammenfassung
Russian spacesuits is a unique contribution to space science. Thus there is no-one better to describe the technical innovations of the past 40 years, which enabled Gagarin's first flight in 1961, the first space walk in 1965 and the Mir missions of the 1980s and 1990s, and which have culminated in today's International space Station.

Inhalt
Preface.- Introduction and Background.- How Space Full Pressure Suits Came About.- Time Period Preceding The Space Mission Era.- The Vostok Era.- The First Eva Suit.- EVA Suit for the Soyuz-4 and Soyuz-5 Mission.- The Space Suit for the USSR Manned Lunar Programme.- The Sojus IVA Programme.- The Salyut/Mir EVA Suits.- The EVA Space Suit Evolution.- The Buran Programme.- The Human Physiological Aspects of EVA.- Future Lunar and Mars Concepts.- The People Behind the Soviet/Russian Spacesuits.- Annexes.