First Cosmic Velocity Audiobook (Free)

A stunningly imaginative novel about the Cool Battle, the Russian space system, as well as the amazing scams that pulled the wool over the eyes of the world.

It’s 1964 in the USSR, and unbeknownst even to Leading Khrushchev himself, the Soviet space plan is a sham. Well, half a sham. While the plan has successfully launched five pills into space, the principle Designer and his team have never successfully brought one back to globe. To disguise this, they’ve utilized twins. However in a country constructed on about First Cosmic Velocity secrets and propaganda, the biggest lie of all is going to unravel.

Because generally there are forget about twins left.

Combining background and fiction, the true and the mystical, First Cosmic Velocity may be the story of Leonid, the final from the twins. Used 1950 from a existence of poverty in Ukraine to working out grounds in Russia, the Leonids were given one name and one identity, but divergent fates. Now one Leonid has launched to specific death (or so one might believe…), as well as the additional is sent on a press tour beneath the watchful eyesight of Ignatius, the government agent who knows an excessive amount of but gives aside little. And while Leonid fights his increasing uncertainties about their deceitful task, the Chief Developer must scramble to perfect a working spacecraft, particularly when Khrushchev nominates his high-strung, squirrel-like pet for the 1st canine mission.

By turns grim and whimsical, fatalistic and deeply hopeful, First Cosmic Velocity is a sweeping book of the heights of mankind’s achievements, the depths of its folly, and the people–and canines–with whom we create family members.