Soviet and Russian Lunar Exploration

The author would like to thank and acknowledge all those who assisted with this book. In particular, he would like to thank: Dave Shayler, whose creative ideas helped to shape this book; Rex Hall, for his comments and advice on the Soviet cosmonaut squad and making available his collection for study; Phil Clark of Molniya Space Consultancy, for his technical advice; Paolo Ulivi, Bart Hendrickx and Don P. Mitchell who provided valuable information; Andy Salmon, for access to his collec­tion; Suszann Parry, for making available information sources and photographs in the British Interplanetary Society; Prof. Evert Meurs, director and Carol Woods, librar­ian of Dunsink Observatory; and of course Clive Horwood for his support for this project.

Many of the photographs published here come from the author’s collection. I would like to thank the many people who generously provided or gave permission for the use of photographs, especially the following:

• Piet Smolders, for permission to use his painting of the first Russian on the moon.

• Andy Salmon, for his series of images of the LK and Luna 10.

• Rex Hall, for his photographs of Luna 10, 13, 16 and Lunokhod 3.

• NASA, for its collection on Soviet space science. Other open American sources were used, such as the declassified CIA collection.

Brian Harvey Dublin, Ireland, 2007