Beyond : the astonishing story of the first human to leave our planet and journey into space / Stephen Walker.
"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...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2021]
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Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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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."-- |
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Physical Description: | x, 502 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-486) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780062978158 0062978152 |