TY  - GEN
AU  - Walker, Stephen 
TI  - Beyond: : the astonishing story of the first human to leave our planet and journey into space 
SN  - 9780008372514
U1  - 629.45 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - William Collins
KW  - Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich, - 1934-1968
KW  - Astronauts - Soviet Union - Biography
KW  -  Astronautics - Soviet Union - History
N2  - 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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