Copyright Tim Furniss 2008
Spaceport Publishing
ISBN 978-0-9555651-0-6
tim@spaceport.co.uk
www.spaceport.co.uk
Spaceport Publishing presents...
One Small Steppe
Book One: 1948-1989
A personal story of the Space Age
by Tim Furniss
The inspiring story of a 12-year old British space enthusiast, whose interest in space was fired
by Yuri Gagarin's flight in 1961 and whose ambition was to become a spaceflight journalist.
Tim became Flight International magazine's spaceflight correspondent in 1984 and is also an author, broadcaster, lecturer and theatrical presenter of his personal space story.
In 1988, Tim was the first British journalist to witness a manned launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the remote steppes of Kazakhstan. When he stood on the launch pad from where Gagarin was launched - while also meeting with veteran cosmonauts Gherman Titov and Alexei Leonov -Tim had come full circle, remembering that day in 1961.
"One Small Steppe" is an inspiring, amusing, moving and feel-good read, accompanied by a popular history of the international space age to 1989.
A second book in preparation will cover 1990-99 and again, will include personal stories and a continued popular history of the international space age.
Note: One Small Steppe does not cover the Challenger accident in detail, only briefly as part of the author's personal recollections at the time.
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Buy One Small Steppe now, and have the option of getting Tim's latest Ebook (Reporting on the Challenger Accident) absolutely free.