Starman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Starman write by Piers Bizony. This book was released on 2011-05-01. Starman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person in history to leave the Earth's atmosphere and venture into space. His flight aboard a Russian Vostok rocket lasted only 108 minutes, but at the end of it he had become the most famous man in the world. Back on the ground, his smiling face captured the hearts of millions around the globe. Film stars, politicians and pop stars from Europe to Japan, India to the United States vied with each other to shake his hand. Despite this immense fame, almost nothing is known about Gagarin or the exceptional people behind his dramatic space flight. Starman tells for the first time Gagarin's personal odyssey from peasant to international icon, his subsequent decline as his personal life began to disintegrate under the pressures of fame, and his final disillusionment with the Russian state. President Kennedy's quest to put an American on the Moon was a direct reaction to Gagarin's achievement--yet before that successful moonshot occurred, Gagarin himself was dead, aged just thirty-four, killed in a mysterious air crash. Publicly the Soviet hierarchy mourned; privately their sighs of relief were almost audible, and the KGB report into his death remains secret. Entwined with Gagarin's history is that of the breathtaking and highly secretive Russian space program - its technological daring, its triumphs and disasters. In a gripping account, Jamie Doran and Piers Bizony reveal the astonishing world behind the scenes of the first great space spectacular, and how Gagarin's flight came frighteningly close to destruction.
Russia's Cosmonauts
Russia's Cosmonauts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Russia's Cosmonauts write by Rex D. Hall. This book was released on 2007-10-05. Russia's Cosmonauts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There is no competition since this is the first book in the English language on cosmonaut selection and training Offers a unique and original discussion on how Russia prepares its cosmonauts for spaceflight. Contains original interviews and photographs with first-hand information obtained by the authors on visits to Star City Provides an insight to the role of cosmonauts in the global space programme of the future. Reviews the training both of Russian cosmonauts in other countries and of foreign cosmonauts in Star City
The Cosmonaut Who Couldn’t Stop Smiling
The Cosmonaut Who Couldn’t Stop Smiling - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cosmonaut Who Couldn’t Stop Smiling write by Andrew L. Jenks. This book was released on 2019-01-15. The Cosmonaut Who Couldn’t Stop Smiling available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Let's go!" With that, the boyish, grinning Yuri Gagarin launched into space on April 12, 1961, becoming the first human being to exit Earth's orbit. The twenty-seven-year-old lieutenant colonel departed for the stars from within the shadowy world of the Soviet military-industrial complex. Barbed wires, no-entry placards, armed guards, false identities, mendacious maps, and a myriad of secret signs had hidden Gagarin from prying outsiders—not even his friends or family knew what he had been up to. Coming less than four years after the Russians launched Sputnik into orbit, Gagarin's voyage was cause for another round of capitalist shock and Soviet rejoicing. The Cosmonaut Who Couldn't Stop Smiling relates this twentieth-century icon's remarkable life while exploring the fascinating world of Soviet culture. Gagarin's flight brought him massive international fame—in the early 1960s, he was possibly the most photographed person in the world, flashing his trademark smile while rubbing elbows with the varied likes of Nehru, Castro, Queen Elizabeth II, and Italian sex symbol Gina Lollobrigida. Outside of the spotlight, Andrew L. Jenks reveals, his tragic and mysterious death in a jet crash became fodder for morality tales and conspiracy theories in his home country, and, long after his demise, his life continues to provide grist for the Russian popular-culture mill. This is the story of a legend, both the official one and the one of myth, which reflected the fantasies, perversions, hopes and dreams of Gagarin's fellow Russians. With this rich, lively chronicle of Gagarin's life and times, Jenks recreates the elaborately secretive world of space-age Russia while providing insights into Soviet history that will captivate a range of readers.
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Yuri Gagarin write by Heather Feldman. This book was released on 2003-01. Yuri Gagarin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes the 1961 flight of Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, as well as the scientific background to that flight and space exploration since then.
Yuri Gagarin and the Race to Space
Yuri Gagarin and the Race to Space - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Yuri Gagarin and the Race to Space write by Ben Hubbard. This book was released on 2015-07-02. Yuri Gagarin and the Race to Space available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Join Yuri Gagarin on his journey into space! This book examines the extraordinary life of the first astronaut in space, from his early life to his first trip aboard a Russian spacecraft. Discover what the space race was and other developments happening at the time. Find out about the rigorous training that astronauts undergo and how they prepare for a journey into the unknown.
