108 minutes that changed the world. Chronicles of the first space flight. 3rd edition. Pervushin A.I.

108 minutes lasted the first flight of a person into space. More than half a century has passed, but Yuri Gagarin, the first astronaut, is still a good symbol of future flights to the stars.

The third supplemented and corrected edition of the book of the famous Russian journalist and futurologist Anton Pervushin talks about the preparation of the first flight of a person in space. Why was the USSR, despite the US technological championship, was the first to launch a companion and man into space? The book published a true description of the flight made by Gagarin himself, and a verified, historically accurate recording of the flight with the explanations of what is happening.