Beyond : the astonishing story of the first human to leave our planet and journey into space / Stephen Walker.
| Author/creator | Walker, Stephen, 1961- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First U.S. edition. |
| Publication | New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] |
| Description | x, 502 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Abstract | "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."-- Publisher's description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-486) and index. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| ISBN | 9780062978158 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 0062978152 (hbk.) |