Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey Into Space
by Stephen Walker · 12 Apr 2021 · 546pp · 164,489 words
there; but in the end that was beside the point. Whether it was the world’s heaviest satellite, or even these sensational rumours of a lost cosmonaut, the Soviets were still manifestly ahead. Meanwhile NASA’s strange silence about its own immediate plans persisted. On February 8 President Kennedy himself added fuel
In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969
by Francis French, Colin Burgess and Walter Cunningham · 1 Jun 2010 · 628pp · 170,668 words
spot where Soyuz 1 came down and cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov lost his life. On 25 April 1968 an emotional memorial was held there for the lost cosmonaut. Over ten thousand people made their way out to the steppe, some driving hundreds of miles to attend. There is little doubt that extreme political
Falling to Earth
by Al Worden · 26 Jul 2011 · 357pp · 121,119 words
. It was a tragic way to end a successful mission. Just over a month later, Dave Scott would gently place a memorial to the three lost cosmonauts, and all known fallen spacefarers, on the surface of the moon. It was a moving reminder that although we were on opposing sides in the
Red Plenty
by Francis Spufford · 1 Jan 2007 · 544pp · 168,076 words
Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1929–1939 (Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2001). For a fabulously dismal description of post-Soviet Kazan, see Daniel Kalder, Lost Cosmonaut: Travels to the Republics That Tourism Forgot (London: Faber, 2006). 11 The title song from the old musical, ‘The Happy-Go-Lucky Guys’: see James
Endless Money: The Moral Hazards of Socialism
by William Baker and Addison Wiggin · 2 Nov 2009 · 444pp · 151,136 words
precise angle of approach into the atmosphere, the Fed must not miss its window of opportunity or it might share the fate of the original “lost cosmonaut,” whose tiny capsule has been sailing away from the Earth at 18,000 mph for the last 45 years; it just kept on going. If