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    To infinity and beyond

    Apr 15, 2021 2 minutes

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

    William Collins, 512 pages, £20

    On the morning of 12 April 1961, a 27-year-old Soviet Air Force lieutenant stood on the threshold of immortality. As the cosmonaut aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin would

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