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Interesting archive of Russian reports on Project Mercury, Apollo 13, and Apollo 14, including:
- an eight-page report entitled "Cosmonaut Training in the USA," beginning (translated): "The selection of cosmonauts for the flight on the piloted satellite under the Mercury project was made based on the functions that the cosmonaut must perform in orbital flight, namely: maintaining communication with Earth, conducting scientific observations, monitoring the onboard equipment, controlling the spatial position of the capsule, implementing navigation, turning on the braking rocket engines, performing manipulations when there is a need for an emergency separation of the capsule from the launch vehicle and opening the rescue parachute upon returning to Earth. The cosmonaut must also serve as an object of a biomedical experiment, since the Mercury project must prove that man can live and work in outer space." The report features two affixed photos of Mercury training simulators and one of the Mercury 7 astronauts, plus four unattached supplementary photographs.
- a sixteen-page report on Alan Shepard's Mercury-Redstone 3 mission, America's first manned spaceflight, beginning (translated): "At the conference on the medical results of the MR-3 suborbital flight of the American astronaut in the capsule of the Mercury spacecraft with the Redstone launch vehicle, astronauts A. B. Shepard and D. K. Slayton gave reports on the training of astronauts and the conduct of the flight…All seven American astronauts are highly qualified jet fighter pilots who graduated from one of the military test pilot schools and have experience in test flights on experimental aircraft. Each of them has a bachelor's degree in technical or physical-mathematical sciences and is completely healthy physiologically and psychologically." A memo addressed to "Comrade Kamanin," paperclipped to the first page, reads (translated): "I don't know if such a specimen has been sent to the institute and the Cosmonaut Center. If not…1. Give a copy to the institute and the center. 2. Let the astronauts see it themselves. 3. Get acquainted with those who are in charge of training equipment in order to borrow something."
- a sixteen-page report on "Spaceship Flight Program Apollo 13," beginning (translated): "On April 11, 1970, at 19:13 Greenwich Mean Time, the Apollo XIII spacecraft is scheduled to be launched from the launch pad at Cape Kennedy. This will be the third flight with the goal of landing a spacecraft on the Moon with two astronauts. (The first flight, Apollo XI, was completed in July 1969, the second, Apollo XII, in November 1969.)" Interestingly, in the second paragraph, the list of the prime crewmen has been hand-corrected to include Jack Swigert, who replaced Ken Mattingly on the flight.
- a seventeen-page report entitled "Preliminary Information on the Spaceship Flight 'Apollo 14,' (based on materials from foreign press)," beginning (translated): "The Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 14 spacecraft sits on Launch Pad A of Launch Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center on November 9, 1970. The launch is scheduled for 11:23 p.m. on January 31, 1971. The launch window is from 11:23 p.m. to 3:12 a.m. on February 1. The next window will open on March 1, 1971."
Also included is a one-page list of "USA Launch Rockets Used for Manned Flights," listing specifications of the Thorad-Agena, Atlas-Agena, Titan, and Saturn launch vehicles. In overall fine condition.
