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By Andrew L. Jenks

ISBN-10: 0875804470

ISBN-13: 9780875804477

ISBN-10: 0875806996

ISBN-13: 9780875806990

“Let’s go!” With that, the boyish, grinning Yuri Gagarin embarked on house on April 12, 1961, turning into the 1st person to go out Earth’s orbit. The twenty-seven-year-old lieutenant colonel departed for the celebs from in the shadowy international of the Soviet military-industrial advanced. Barbed wires, no-entry placards, armed guards, fake identities, mendacious maps, and a myriad of mystery indicators had hidden Gagarin from prying outsiders—not even his neighbors or kinfolk knew what he were as much as. Coming lower than 4 years after the Russians introduced Sputnik into orbit, Gagarin’s voyage was once reason for one more around of capitalist surprise and Soviet rejoicing. 

The Cosmonaut Who Couldn’t cease Smiling relates this twentieth-century icon’s notable lifestyles whereas exploring the attention-grabbing global of Soviet tradition. Gagarin’s flight introduced him substantial foreign fame—in the early Nineteen Sixties, he was once almost certainly the main photographed individual on this planet, flashing his trademark smile whereas rubbing elbows with the various likes of Nehru, Castro, Queen Elizabeth II, and Italian intercourse image Gina Lollobrigida. open air of the highlight, Andrew L. Jenks finds, his tragic and mysterious demise in a jet crash grew to become fodder for morality stories and conspiracy theories in his domestic kingdom, and, lengthy after his loss of life, his lifestyles keeps to supply grist for the Russian popular-culture mill. 

This is the tale of a legend, either the legitimate one and the only of delusion, which mirrored the fantasies, perversions, hopes and desires of Gagarin’s fellow Russians. With this wealthy, full of life chronicle of Gagarin’s lifestyles and occasions, Jenks recreates the elaborately secretive international of space-age Russia whereas offering insights into Soviet background that may captivate a variety of readers.

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