Escaping the Bonds of Earth: The Fifties and the Sixties - Ben Evans - Google Books

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To commemorate the momentous 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering journey into space on 12th April 2011, a series of five books – to be published annually until 2011 – will explore this half century, decade by decade, to discover how humanity’s…