The Cosmonaut Who Couldn’t Stop Smiling : : The Life and Legend of Yuri Gagarin / / Andrew L. Jenks.

"Let's go!" With that, the boyish, grinning Yuri Gagarin launched into space on April 12, 1961, becoming the first human being to exit Earth's orbit. The twenty-seven-year-old lieutenant colonel departed for the stars from within the shadowy world of the Soviet military-industria...

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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (323 p.) :; 28 illustrations
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