Stephen Walker

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...