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To commemorate the momentous 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin�s pioneering journey into space on 12th April 2011, a series of five books � to be published annually � will explore this half century, decade by decade, to discover how humanity�s knowledge of flying, working and living in space has changed. Each volume will focus not only upon the individual missions within �its� decade, but also upon the key challenges facing human space exploration at specific points within those 50 years: from the simple problems of breathing and eating in space to the challenges of venturing outside in a pressurised spacesuit and locomotion on the Moon. The first volume of this series will focus upon the 1960s, exploring each mission from April 1961 to April 1971 in depth: from the pioneering Vostok flights to the establishment of the first Salyut space station and from Alan Shepard�s modest sub-orbital �hop� into space to his triumphant arrival at the Moon�s Fra Mauro foothills almost a decade later.Typham this is the title: Escaping the Bonds of Earth The Fifties and the Sixties