Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space

"This remarkable account of the 1961 race into space is a thrilling piece of storytelling. . . . It is high definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched."-The Times, London, Front Page Lead Review

"Beyond has the exhilaration of a fine thriller, but it is vividly embedded in the historic tensions of the Cold War, and peopled by men and women brought sympathetically, and sometimes tragically, to life."-Colin Thubron, author of Shadow of the Silk Road

09.07 am. April 12, 1961...