Yuri's Day - The Road to the Stars

Resumen del libro

YURI'S DAY reveals the drama and complexity of Soviet life in its insane and often cruel glory. Out of hard times came the world's first great triumph of human space exploration: a victory that will forever be Russian!

The dramatic story of early Soviet rocket adventures will amaze people unfamiliar with the incredible experiences of the first space pioneers. Yuri Alexeyovich Gagarin, the first man ever to journey into space, is known to most of us only as a vague, smiling figure in a metal helmet. We in the non-Russian world have little idea of what happened to him after his historic space trip. Yuri earned the loyalty and respect of his cosmonaut colleagues, and the love of the Russian people. In fact he became a popular and handsome global superstar but YURI'S DAY reveals Gagarin's gradual disillusionment with the Soviet system that created him. Along the way we encounter:

Sergei Korolev, the father' of the Russian space program, and a man who literally crawled, half-starved, out of a gulag to claim his place as chief of Soviet rocketry Nikolai Kamanin, the Stalinist martinet in charge of cosmonaut training Alexei Leonov, Yuri's best friend, and the first man to walk in space Gagarin's brother and sister, young children caught up in the Nazi invasion of Russia Gherman Titov, the brilliant, clever pilot who had hoped to be the first man to reach space. Titov was Yuri's close friend and bitter rival, a Salieri to Yuri's Mozart.

YURI'S DAY reveals the drama and complexity of Soviet life in its insane and often cruel glory. Out of hard times came the world's first great triumph of human space exploration: a victory that will forever be Russian!

Biografía del autor

Piers Bizony ha escrito sobre ciencia e historia de la tecnología para distintas publicaciones del Reino Unido y Estados Unidos. Uno de sus proyectos recientes, Atom, un libro relacionado con una importante serie de la BBC, cuenta la dramática historia de las rivalidades y pasiones que hubo tras el descubrimiento de la física cuántica. The Man Who Ran the Moon, que glosa la figura de Jim Webb, el administrador jefe de la NASA durante la era lunar, fue encumbrado por la crítica. A comienzos de año, Bizony vendió los derechos de Starman, una biografía fascinante de Yuri Gagarin (escrita en colaboración con Jamie Doran), que se llevará a la gran pantalla. Su texto para The Making of Stanley Kubrickx{0026} x02019;s x{0026} x02018;2001: A Space Odysseyx{0026} x02019; es una versión ampliada y actualizada de su monografía 2001: Filming the Future (1994), que fue un éxito de ventas.