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In no way is this news or a scoop, but who can resist the tale of plucky cosmonauts calmly relaying such nuggets from a dead-in-the-water space station as:
Savinikh: "We're trying to turn on the light now. Command issued. No reaction, not even one little diode. If only something would light up..."
and
Savinikh: “I’ve gotten the Rodnik schematics. Pump connected. The valves aren’t opening. There’s an icicle sticking out of the air pipe.”
Yep — all the makings of a sci-fi straight to TV movie… icicles hanging out of air pipes indeed!
However, it is not. It is the tale of two cosmonauts sent to try to recover the dead in low earth orbit Salyut 7 back in 1985. The included cosmonaut to earth communication transcripts would be comedy genius had they been scripted, if only as a parody of calm professionalism in a seemingly absurd predicament.
Over to Ars Technica for the piece: http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/09/the-little-known-soviet-mission-to-rescue-a-dead-space-station/
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday September 17 2014, @08:07PM
Good luck, from memory all the books his ghostwriter wrote are gone from the market semi-permanently. A poster child for the "copyright is too long" problem. Those books are 40 yrs old and outside libraries with older collections no one is going to see them again for at least 100 years maybe more. Even worse a 40 yr old library paperback was probably pulped 20 years ago, so your only hope is a hardcover edition.
Sounds like an interesting book but I probably won't be able to read it this lifetime, unless someone scans their copy and puts it up on a P2P site.