Beyond : the astonishing story of the first human to leave our planet and journey into space
(2021)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/GAGARIN,Y
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
EDITION
First U.S. edition
DESCRIPTION
x, 502 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780062978158, 0062978152 :, 0062978152, 9780062978158
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"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 planet."--