Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space by Stephen Walker

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vanamonde's review against another edition

informative tense fast-paced

5.0

An excellent book that mainly covers the Soviet space programme to Gagarin’s launch. The revelation that Gagarin’s flight came close to disaster several times, that he flew with equipment that didn’t work properly really hits home how risky that first flight was. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

A lot of animals suffered and some died in the test flights before Gagarin’s launch and some sections of the books can be hard to read.