Starman by Jamie Doran

Author:Jamie Doran
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 2011-02-26T10:00:00+00:00

Early on the morning of April 14 Gagarin left for Moscow. He climbed the gangway of a large Ilyushin-18 airliner capable of long-distance flights. In a few weeks’ time he would no longer think of this sturdy machine as an IL-18 any more; with weary humour he would be calling it ‘home’.

Much of his time during the flight to Moscow was taken up with journalists’ questions. Messages of congratulation were coming in via the radio in the cockpit, and the aircraft’s crew took turns coming into the passenger cabin for a few words. As the plane approached its destination after four hours’ steady progress, Gagarin took time out to gaze through his window. He saw his old life shooting past him in the sky, and a new and more complex life waiting on the ground:

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