A collection of particle data acquired from several spacecraft with use of 
the instruments by TASPD SINP MSU has been restored and presented on Internet 
due to efforts of many people.

TASPD staff members from the Heliosphere Physics Lab Tamara Styopina, 
Tatyana Khotilovskaya and Lidiya Ryabova have made the most significant 
contribution to converting the data tables from old papers into 
the computer-readable files for non-geocentric spacecraft.  Sergey Ermakov 
has performed the manual digitization of the trajectory data for 
these spacecraft and the initial correction of these coordinate data 
for the sake of their better smoothing.  Together with Dr. Eugene Chuchkov 
and Dr. Vladimir Tulupov, he input a lot of corrections into the time-tags 
of a huge-size data set from GRANAT.  Dr. Vladimir Tulupov and 
Dr. Boris Scherbovsky gave the notes concerning specifics of 
the historically used sensors, which is necessary for proper 
understanding of the presented data.  From the very beginning, 
a head of the Lab Dr. Nickolay Kontor supported an idea of this work 
by all means; many things could not be done without his participation.

A head of the Magnetosphere Physics Lab, Dr. Elmar Sosnovets has supported 
restoration of the data collection from COSMOS-900 and participated in all 
most essential discussions.  Dr. Lyudmila Tverskaya has leaded a part of work 
relevant to rectification of a huge data set from COSMOS-900.  
Tatyana Lukina and Dr. Tatyana Ivanova performed this tremendous work.

Dr. Nickolay Pavlov made a lot of programming, data rectification works, 
preparing documentation, organizing work, etc.

Prof. Boris Tverskoy, a head of TASPD till 1997, supported this work.

Dr. Nickolay Khevinson from IKI RAN and Dr. Alexander Sheikhet from NPO 
Lavochkina have provided us with the exact elements of the GRANAT's orbit.

It should be notices the useful work of the World Data Center B whose printed 
issues of particle datasets from Russian spacecraft, published in 70s, helped 
us a lot in preparing a part of the collection.
The work has been supported by NASA, grant NAG5-4656.  All participants 
from TASPD are very thankful to those colleagues from the USA who trusted 
us in this initiative.  The grant gave us a new exceptional opportunity 
to realize the initial idea with a good modern equipment.

It was very pleasant to cooperate with Dr. Joseph King from NSSDC/GSFC, NASA.  
His suggestions, and the fruitful discussions of many aspects of data 
organization that took place with him and his colleagues, gave us a lot of 
new understanding of the scheme of a data collection oriented onto user's 
needs.  His patience and his approach that directed to data standardization 
but, nevertheless, leaves a room for individuality of each data contributor 
are really exceptional.  Dr. Nataliya Papitashvili made a lot for deriving 
the final form of the data collection and porting its copy to NSSDC.

Nick Pavlov, 1999