Dave Scott Inscribed Copy of "The Spaceflight Revolution" - "I look forward to our work"

A signed copy of "The Spaceflight Revolution: A Sociological Study" by William Sims Bainbridge of Harvard University. Malabar: Robert E. Krieger Publishing Company, 1983. A Reprint Edition with a new preface. Octavo, xx, 294pp including notes and index. Signed and inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Anatole: If we can amplify certain areas (e.g. p.35), This will be a close account of The first order. I look forward to our work. Dave Scott June 19, 1994." Navy leather-bound boards with silver lettering on the front and spine. Tables and illustrations throughout. Sound binding with a bold signature. Provenance: From the collection of Anatole Forostenko, Chief Russian Language Instructor-Interpreter for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission.

This volume was the publication of research done for Bainbridge's Ph.D. thesis in 1975 and explores the story of the spaceflight revolution and sociological analysis of why it started and how it succeeded. In his inscription, astronaut Dave Scott references his work with Dr. Forostenko, who provided assistance in interpreting and translating materials for Scott's own book written with Alexei Leonov, entitled "Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race."

Dr. Anatole Forostenko (b. 1939) was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the U.S. in 1949. He studied at Rutgers University and Indiana University before gaining his Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr. From 1970 to 1973, Forostenko was an Assistant Professor of Russian Language and Literature at the University of California. He then joined the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1974 and became involved in the Apollo-Soyuz test project. He became the Chief Russian Language Instructor for the NASA astronauts, preparing them to communicate with cosmonauts during the mission, and he worked closely with both crews as instructor-interpreter. Often, he worked in one-on-one situations with General Thomas P. Stafford and Vance Brand. During the Apollo-Soyuz mission, Forostenko served as one of three U.S. Air-to-Ground interpreters at the Johnson Space Center Mission Control Center. Upon completion of the mission, he traveled with the crew members and their families on the post-flight Soviet Good Will Tour and has remained in close contact with those involved.

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