First. The new story of Gagarin and the space race. Walker S.

The two superpowers race for the championship in the field of manned flights into space was so dramatic that Stephen Walker considers it necessary to assure the reader: all this is not fiction. Indeed, behind an amazing, exciting plot, there are many years of work in archives, personal meetings with participants in the events, hundreds of hours of interviews with specialists engaged in the preparation of the first space flights both in the USSR and the USA, conversations with Russian and American cosmonauts.

Although the personality of Yuri Gagarin occupies the central place in the narrative, Walral draws parallels between him and Alan Shepard, two candidates for the first flight into space, as well as between Sergey Pavlovich Korolev and Verner von Braun, and the creators of missiles. P>

It seems we know everything about Gagarin. But the secrets that have been stored in this book for decades, and eyewitnesses who have never given interviews, allow you to add colors to the portrait of the most famous Russian astronaut in the world.