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Russian Space ProbesScientific Discoveries and Future Missions\nAuthor(s): Brian Harvey, Olga Zakutnyaya\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., United States\nImprint: Praxis\nISBN-13: 9781441981493, 978-1441981493\nSynopsis\nBrian Harvey recounts for the first time the definitive history of scientific Russian space probes and the knowledge they acquired of the Earth, its environment, the Moon, Mars and Venus. He examines what Russian Space Science has actually achieved in furthering our knowledge of the Solar System, focusing on the instrumentation and scientific objectives and outcomes, the information gained and lessons learnt. Boxes and charts are used extensively in order to convey in an easily understandable manner for the non-scientific reader the problems and issues addressed and solved by Soviet space science. The book opens with the story of early space science in Russia, which started when the first Russian rockets were fired into the high atmosphere.