

The decision on this expansion is shown in Document No. 3, directly to the Central Committee on December 2, 1958, suggesting that instead of creating a new institute, space biomedicine be given an expanded portfolio in the existing institute, which would be henceforth known as the Institute of Aviation and Space Medicine. The authors ask that a unit from the Air Force’s existing Institute of Aviation Medicine be detached and made into a new institute for space medicine.Īs a result of this initiative, a number of powerful industrial leaders, military officials, and scientists wrote a letter, Document No. 1, dated June 26, 1958, is the first formal request from scientists – in this case a number of biomedicine specialists – to the Soviet leadership asking for a significant expansion of existing research on aviation and space biomedicine. 1-ya (Moscow: Rodina MEDIA, 2011).ĭocument No. Davydov, ed., Pervyy pilotiruyemyy polet: sbornik dokumentov v dvukh knigakh, kn. Most of these have been published in collections of documents published in Russia including: V.
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The documents come from a variety of archives including the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation (APRF) and the archive of the Energiya Rocket-Space Corporation.

Nuclear Proliferation International History Project.North Korea International Documentation Project.Environmental Change and Security Program.Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy.
