Umfang:
x, 502 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln
,
Illustration
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24 cm
Ausgabe:
First U.S. edition
ISBN:
9780008372507
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9780008372514
Inhalt:
"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."--
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Gagarin, Jurij Alekseevič 1934-1968
;
Bemannte Raumfahrt
;
Geschichte 1961
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