Escaping the Bonds of Earth : The Fifties and the Sixties (Springer Praxis Books/Space Exploration)

To commemorate the momentous 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering journey into space on 12th April 2011, a series of five books – to be published annually – will explore this half century, decade by decade, to discover how humanity’s knowledge of flying, working and living in space has changed.