Первая книга выпущенная на Западе о Юрии Гагарине. В иллюстрациях — мифонавты, в тексте ошибки.
Panther Books proudly present the first independent Western evaluation of the Russian space programme and the flight of Major Yuri Gagarin — the first man into space. This is not simply Gagarin’s life story; it is the history of the whole Soviet effort in this field, with its problems, its successes and its failures. For the fist time: Gagarin himself, in the first private interview that the Russians allowed with Western journalists, describes his feelings during his historic 108-minute orbit of the world.
The answers to the questions: Why are the Russians ahead?
What will they do next? What is their national policy on space research?
Why is the West behind?
Russian scientists give their opinion of the U.S. efforts, comparing them with their own.
Russian biologists depict fully the extraordinary training of animals and men for space flight.
Details are given of the construction and equipment of their space-ships, together with an account of the experiments which led up to the final designs and the first prototype of a manned rocket.
In this fascinating and important book, the authors have uncovered and presented the facts.
