num_pages: 248
description: Yuri Gagarin is one of the great heroes of the twentieth century but the details of his life and the Russian space effort have been shrouded in secrecy: even the names of the engineers who worked with Gagarin were a mystery to the West for many years.Starman is the first book to tell the compelling story behind Gagarin's life and his audacious first flight into space aboard a converted nuclear weapon.He was once the most famous man in the world yet in his life as in death he was a man the world knew almost nothing about.
language: English
title: Starman: The Truth Behind The Legend Of Yuri Gagarin
publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC