Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1961. — 94 p. Yuri Gagarin was the first person to fly in space. His flight, on April 12, 1961, lasted 108 minutes as he circled the Earth for a little more than one orbit in the Soviet Union's Vostok spacecraft . Following the flight, Gagarin became a cultural hero in the Soviet Union. Even today, more than six decades after the...
Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-1328876645, eISBN 978-1328876720. The untold story of five women who fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air races of the 1920s and 1930s — and won. Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. Thousands of fans flocked to multi‑day events, and...
Simon & Schuster, 2014. — 400 p. The definitive biography of Sally Ride, America’s first woman in space, with exclusive insights from Ride’s family and partner, by the ABC reporter who covered NASA during its transformation from a test-pilot boys’ club to a more inclusive elite. Sally Ride made history as the first American woman in space. A member of the first astronaut class...
London: The Panther Books, 1961. — 193 p. Panther Books proudly present the first independent Western evaluation of the Russian space program and the flight of Major Yuri Gagarin — the first man into space. This is not simply Gagarin’s life story; it is the history of the whole Soviet effort in this field, with its problems, its successes and its failures. For the fist time:...
New York: Ballantine Books, 1973. — 336 p. The bestselling story of Britain's most courageous and most famous flyer, the Second World War hero Sir Douglas Bader.
This is not only the story of one man's war, but of an aircraft - the Typhoon, or "Tiffy" as it was affectionately known - which the author describes as a "low-bred carthorse whose pedigree had received a sharp infusion of hot-headed sprinter's blood." He recounts his time as a young commander of a rumbustious New Zealand Air Force squadron, and later as the RAF's youngest...
Der Kinderbuchverlag Berlin. – 135 S. Der Autor, ein bekannter Journalist und Schriftsteller, Verfasser vieler Kinderbücher, hatte das große Glück, gerade am Tage des ersten Weltraumfluges eines Menschen, an jenem historischen.12. April 1961, in Moskau zu sein. In einer erregenden dokumentarischen Reportage berichtet er aus dem Leben und vom Raumflug Juri Gagarins, des...
New York: Walker & Company, 1998. The book contains photographs Yuri Gagarin is one of the great heroes of the twentieth century, but the details of his life and the Russian space effort have been shrouded in secrecy: even the names of the engineers who worked with Gagarin were a mystery to the West for many years. It's well written and easy to read. It paints the intertwined...
Potomac Books Inc.: 2003. — 380 p. Graduating from the Imperial Russian Naval Academy at the start of World War I, de Seversky lost a leg in his first combat mission. He still shot down thirteen German planes and became the empire’s most decorated combat naval pilot. De Seversky elected to escape Soviet Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. He served as a naval attaché in the...