"What lies ahead of you is the investigation of the crater-gnawed Moon and
the landing on Mars. You are expected to penetrate into the hotbed furnace
of Venus, install stations on the satellites of the big planets and probe
the opaque atmosphere of Jupiter and Saturn. You are going to study the Sun,
near-Sun and interstellar space, and then the innumerable stars. By examining
them one by one you will learn that some of the stars are very much the same
as the Sun, while others are quite different."

Yuri Kolesnikov is a popular-science writer whose articles on space research,
astronomy, biology and history appear regularly in Soviet news-papers and
magazines. He was bom in 1935 and graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering
Institute in 1959. Yuri Glazkov, Cand. Sc. (Eng.), is a well-known Soviet
cosmonaut. Born in 1939, he grad-uated from the Kharkov Higher Air-Force
Engineering School in 1962 and served in the Air Force until 1965 when he
joined the team of Soviet cosmonauts. Qualified as a pilot, Glazkov has
flown on var-ious spaceships and orbital stations. In 1977 he was the flight
engineer aboard Soyuz 24 and Salyut 5.

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