Tredje flykthastigheten

The book traces Yuri Gagarin's path from a little Siberian village to the first human flight into space in 1961. Around him speak others who are now mostly forgotten, fellow cosmonauts, engineers and designers, and at times a voice of official Soviet speechmaking. Chapters named after places such as the Institute, the Chief Designer, the Cosmodrome and the Hospital mix fact and invention, telling of boyhood memories, loyalty to the Soviet state, experiments and breakthroughs, and of the lengths people will go to in their urge to reach other worlds, with failure hidden inside every triumph.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

189 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)

First published

2004 by Albert Bonniers Förlag

Author's age

40 when first published

ISBN

9789100103057 (original)