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100 1 $aWalker, Stephen,$d1961-
245 10$aBeyond :$bthe astonishing story of the first human to leave our planet and journey into space /$cStephen Walker.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York, N.Y. :$bHarper,$cc2021.
300 $ax, 502 p., [16] p. of plates :$bill. (some col.) ;$c24 cm.
500 $a"Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2021 by William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers"--T.p. verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 469-486) and index.
505 0 $aPrologue: Fifteen minutes before launch -- Four months earlier. Pallo's dogs ; Who let a Russian in here? ; The house in the forest ; Inauguration ; Shame and danger ; The American team ; The Soviet Team ; The King ; Subject 65 ; A hell of a ride -- Decision. The risk equation ; At our heals ; Ivan Ivanovich ; The biggest missile site in the world ; The price of progress ; Boosters and dummies ; The Military-Industrial Commission -- Final countdown. Brinkmanship ; Just in case ; The egg timer ; Chimp barbecue ; Chosen ; Opening pitch ; Roll out ; Night -- Launch. A mother's love ; Key to start ; The first seventeen minutes ; The next thirty-two minutes ; Moscow calling ; A beautiful halo ; Ba-boom! ; Gagarin's field ; Triumph and defeat ; The ball on the hill ; Party time -- Epilogue: Endgame.
520 $a"A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union's most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile--originally designed to carry a nuclear warhead--and blasts into the skies. His name is Yuri Gagarin. And he is about to make history. Traveling at almost 18,000 miles per hour--ten times faster than a rifle bullet--Gagarin circles the globe in just 106 minutes. From his windows he sees the earth as nobody has before, crossing a sunset and a sunrise, crossing oceans and continents, witnessing its beauty and its fragility. While his launch begins in total secrecy, within hours of his landing he has become a world celebrity--the first human to leave the planet."--$cPublisher's description
600 10$aGagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich,$d1934-1968.
650 0$aAstronauts$zSoviet Union$vBiography.
650 0$aAstronautics$zSoviet Union$xHistory.
650 0$aManned space flight$xHistory.