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Author:

Walker, Stephen, 1961- author.

Title:

Beyond : the astonishing story of the first human to leave our planet and journey into space / Stephen Walker.

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Publisher:

Harperan imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

x, 502 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Subject:

Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich,--1934-1968.
Astronauts--Soviet Union--Biography.
Astronautics--Soviet Union--History.
Manned space flight--History.
Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-486) and index.

Summary:

A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union's most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile -- originally designed to carry a nuclear warhead -- and blasts into the skies. His name is Yuri Gagarin. And he is about to make history. Traveling at almost 18,000 miles per hour -- ten times faster than a rifle bullet -- Gagarin circles the globe in just 106 minutes. From his windows he sees the earth as nobody has before, crossing a sunset and a sunrise, crossing oceans and continents, witnessing its beauty and its fragility. While his launch begins in total secrecy, within hours of his landing he has become a world celebrity -- the first human to leave the planet. -- Publisher's description.

ISBN:

0062978152
9780062978158

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1244126203

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