The cosmonaut who couldn't stop smiling the life and legend of Yuri Gagarin
"'Let's go!' With that, the boyish, grinning Yuri Gagarin launched into space on April 12, 1961, becoming the first human being to exit Earth's orbit. The twenty-seven-year-old lieutenant colonel departed for the stars from within the shadowy world of the Soviet military-ind...
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| Materyal Türü: | Licensed eBooks |
| Dil: | İngilizce |
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DeKalb, IL
2014
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| Seri Bilgileri: | NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies.
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| Online Erişim: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv180h6n2 |
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