“Keeping Up with The Astronauts 2” by Don Myrus. New York: Rutledge / Grosset & Dunlap, (1963).
“The story of man’s greatest adventures in outer space including the Glenn, Carpenter and Schirra flights.”
ALIVE IN SPACE
"Men can live in space.
"The world knew for sure that it was possible when, on April 12, 1961, a 27-year-old Russian named Yuri Gagarin riding in a Sputnik that weighed 10,395 pounds -- a little more than the weight of six Volkswagens -- sped around the earth in 108 minutes. That is about as long as it takes to see the average motion picture and it means that Gagarin's speed was 17,000 miles an hour, 11 times the speed of an American-made jet fighter plane. At one point, Gagarin was 203 miles high -- a little less than the distance between New York City and Boston.
"Yuri Gagarin came back alive and, because he is the first man to have gone around the world above the earth's atmosphere, he is now one of the most famous men in history -- and he always will be. . ." [Opening paragraphs in the book]
(Sadly, Yuri Gagarin was killed in a jet crash on March 27, 1968.)
“Keeping Up with The Astronauts 2” by Don Myrus. New York: Rutledge / Grosset & Dunlap, (1963).
“The story of man’s greatest adventures in outer space including the Glenn, Carpenter and Schirra flights.”
ALIVE IN SPACE
"Men can live in space.
"The world knew for sure that it was possible when, on April 12, 1961, a 27-year-old Russian named Yuri Gagarin riding in a Sputnik that weighed 10,395 pounds -- a little more than the weight of six Volkswagens -- sped around the earth in 108 minutes. That is about as long as it takes to see the average motion picture and it means that Gagarin's speed was 17,000 miles an hour, 11 times the speed of an American-made jet fighter plane. At one point, Gagarin was 203 miles high -- a little less than the distance between New York City and Boston.
"Yuri Gagarin came back alive and, because he is the first man to have gone around the world above the earth's atmosphere, he is now one of the most famous men in history -- and he always will be. . ." [Opening paragraphs in the book]
(Sadly, Yuri Gagarin was killed in a jet crash on March 27, 1968.)