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Beyond - The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space (Hardcover)
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Beyond - The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space (Hardcover)
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'Thrilling ... High-definition history: tight, thrilling and
beautifully researched' SUNDAY TIMES 'This book is a triumph' DAN
SNOW 9.07 a.m., April 12, 1961. A top-secret rocket site in the
USSR. 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. Travelling at almost 18,000 miles per hour - ten times
faster than a rifle bullet - Gagarin circles the globe in just 106
minutes. 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. Beyond tells the thrilling story behind that epic
flight on its sixtieth anniversary. It happened at the height of
the Cold War as the US and USSR confronted each other across an
Iron Curtain. Both superpowers took enormous risks to get a man
into space first - the Americans in the full glare of the media,
the Soviets under deep cover. Both trained their teams of
astronauts to the edges of the endurable. In the end the race
between them would come down to the wire. Drawing on extensive
original research and the vivid testimonies of eyewitnesses, many
of whom have never spoken before, Stephen Walker unpacks secrets
that were hidden for decades and takes the reader into the drama -
featuring the scientists, engineers and political leaders on both
sides, and above all the American astronauts and their Soviet
rivals battling for supremacy in the heavens.
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