YURI's DAY – sample pages

Publisher's Description

Beaten and half-starved, a brilliant engineer crawls out of a Siberian Gulag to build the world's first spaceship. But they won't let the world know his name. The first human to see the Earth from space becomes a global superstar. Just seven years later, he's dead at the age of 34. Yuri's Day tells the incredible story of the world's first spaceman, revealing the drama of the Soviet space effort in all its brilliance and darkness.

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Categories

Comic books, education, science & technology

Tags

cold war / first man in space / rocket / space race / sputnik / yuri gagarin / sergei korolev / r-7 / russian culture / soviet society / vostok / boctok

Language

English

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