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Más allá  by Stephen Walker
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Más allá 

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

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Narrator Luis Solís

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Translator Gemma Deza
Length 18 hours 34 minutes
Language Spanish
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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.

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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.

 Travelling 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.

STEVEN WALKER Escritor y cineasta británico. Estudió en las universidades de Oxford y Harvard. Ha dirigido o producido una treintena de películas y ha sido elegido dos veces entre los diez mejores directores del Reino Unido por la revista Broadcast. Su productora es Walker George Films. Ha escrito tres libros, siendo el último 'Mas allá', que han recibido grandes críticas; ha ganado un BAFTA y ha sido nominado a otros tres. Actualmente Walker está desarrollando ‘A Boy Called Alex’ como largometraje dramatizado para DNA Films y Film 4. Vive en Londres y tiene una hija. En su tiempo libre, pilota una avioneta de recreo.

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Stephen Walker was born in London. He has a BA in History from Oxford and an MA in the History of Science from Harvard. His previous book was Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima, a New York Times bestseller. As well as being a writer he is also an award-winning documentary director. His films have won an Emmy, a BAFTA and the Rose d’Or, Europe’s most prestigious documentary award.

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