Gagarin"s Secrets. Myths and Truth about the First Flight

His name is inscribed in gold history. His famous & quot, went! & Quot, discovered a new space era for humanity. His smile conquered the whole world. And the tragic death at the age of 34 years did not leave anyone indifferent ... Why was such an unusually developed the fate of the usual Russian boy from under Gzhatsk? How did Yuriy Gagarin have been elected for the greatest admix of the XX century? And what is his main secret, about which historians and biographers still argue about this day? In those 8 minutes of the flight when no one knew if the first person could return from orbit? In classified accidents and catastrophes, through which you had to go on the way to the stars? In a happy concise circumstances preceding the first launch of a person in space? Or in the words of Great Isaac Newton: & Quot, we all stand on the shoulders of Titans & quot ,? After all, the flight of Gagarin has become possible only thanks to the titanic work of millions of Soviet people and the genius of such colossi, as Korolev and Keldysh, Glushko and Pilyugin, Mishin and Damn, Gazenko and Severin ... This book pays tribute to all Cosmos conquerors - scientists, designers, gagarin colleagues According to the cosmonauts, which the author had happiness to know personally, with whom he met on the cosmodromes, in scientific centers and flight control centers