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Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our

AuthorStephen Walker
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Price2495

â€œThis remarkable account of the 1961 race into space is a thrilling piece of storytellingâ€¦.It is high definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched.â€               (The Times, London, Front Page Lead Review)â€œBeyond 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.â€â€”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 Unionâ€™s most powerful intercontinental ballistic missileâ€”originally designed to carry a nuclear warheadâ€”and blasts into the skies. His name is Yuri Gagarin. And he is about to make history. Travelling at almost 18,000 miles per hourâ€”ten times faster than a rifle bulletâ€”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 â€“ 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 humanityâ€™s greatest adventures â€“ 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.

Publisher William Collins UK
Publication Date 01/04/2021
Number of Pages 512
Binding Trade Paper Back
ISBN 9780008372514
Category Fiction , Historical

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