Starman: The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin by Jamie Doran, Piers Bizony

Starman: The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin

Jamie Doran, Piers Bizony

256 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous reflective slow-paced

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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...

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