[PDF] Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space - Stephen Walker

Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space

By : Stephen Walker

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Book Synopsis :

?Beyond?has the exhilaration of a fine thriller, but it is vividly embedded in the historic tensions of the Cold War, and peopled by men and women brought sympathetically, and sometimes tragically, to life.??Colin Thubron, author of Shadow of the Silk Road09.07 am. 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. 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

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Author : Stephen Walker

Pages : 512 pages

Publisher : Harper

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ISBN-10 : 0062978152

ISBN-13 : 9780062978158

 
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