Walker Stephen Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey Into Space 9780062978158

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Автор: Walker Stephen
Название: Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey Into Space
ISBN: 9780062978158
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Классификация: ISBN-10: 0062978152
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 400
Вес: 0.73 кг.
Дата издания: 13.04.2021
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 150 x 48
Поставляется из: США
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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 Road

09.07 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 Unions 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 planet.

Beyond tells the thrilling story behind that epic flight on its 60th 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 testimony 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 of one of humanitys greatest adventures - to the scientists, engineers and political leaders on both sides, and above all to the American astronauts and their Soviet rivals battling for supremacy in the heavens.

Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey Into Space, Walker Stephen