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Más allá

By: Stephen Walker, Gemma Deza - translator
Narrated by: Luis Solís
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Summary

09.07 am. 12 de abril de 1961. Un cohete de alto secreto en la URSS. Un joven ruso se sienta en una minúscula cápsula encima del misil balístico intercontinental más potente de la Unión Soviética -diseñado originalmente para transportar una cabeza nuclear- y despega hacia el cielo. Se llama Yuri Gagarin. Y está a punto de hacer historia.

Viajando a casi 18.000 millas por hora - diez veces más rápido que una bala de fusil- Gagarin da la vuelta al mundo en sólo 106 minutos. Desde sus ventanillas ve la Tierra como nadie lo ha hecho antes, cruzando un atardecer y un amanecer, atravesando océanos y continentes, siendo testigo de su belleza y su fragilidad. Aunque su lanzamiento se inicia en total secreto, a las pocas horas de su aterrizaje se ha convertido en una celebridad mundial: el primer ser humano que abandona el planeta.

'Más allá' cuenta la emocionante historia de aquel vuelo épico en su 60 aniversario. Ocurrió en plena Guerra Fría, cuando Estados Unidos y la URSS se enfrentaban al otro lado del Telón de Acero. Ambas superpotencias asumieron enormes riesgos para llevar primero a un hombre al espacio: los estadounidenses a la luz de los medios de comunicación y los soviéticos en la clandestinidad. Ambas entrenaron a sus equipos de astronautas hasta el límite de lo soportable. Al final, la carrera entre ambos se decidiría en el último momento.

Basándose en una extensa investigación original y en el vívido testimonio de testigos presenciales, muchos de los cuales nunca habían hablado antes, Stephen Walker desvela secretos que permanecieron ocultos durante décadas y muestra al lector el drama de una de las mayores aventuras de la humanidad: los científicos, ingenieros y líderes políticos de ambos bandos y, sobre todo, los astronautas estadounidenses y a sus rivales soviéticos que luchaban por la supremacía en los cielos.

09.07 am. April 12, 1961. A top secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Union’s most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile—originally designed to carry a nuclear warhead—and blasts into the skies. His name is Yuri Gagarin. And he is about to make history.

Traveling at almost 18,000 miles per hour—ten times faster than a rifle bullet—Gagarin circles the globe in just 106 minutes. From his windows he sees the earth as nobody has before, crossing a sunset and a sunrise, crossing oceans and continents, witnessing its beauty and its fragility. While his launch begins in total secrecy, within hours of his landing he has become a world celebrity—the first human to leave the planet.

Beyond tells the thrilling story behind that epic flight on its 60th anniversary. It happened at the height of the Cold War as the US and USSR confronted each other across an Iron Curtain. Both superpowers took enormous risks to get a man into space first, the Americans in the full glare of the media, the Soviets under deep cover. Both trained their teams of astronauts to the edges of the endurable. In the end the race between them would come down to the wire.

Drawing on extensive original research and the vivid testimony of eyewitnesses, many of whom have never spoken before, Stephen Walker unpacks secrets that were hidden for decades and takes the reader into the drama of one of humanity’s greatest adventures—to the scientists, engineers and political leaders on both sides, and above all to the American astronauts and their Soviet rivals battling for supremacy in the heavens.

Please Note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

©2023 Stephen Walker (P)2024 Random House Audio

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