In ‘Beyond,’ Walker chronicles the space race between the Soviet Union and the U.S. He masterfully reconstructs the epic flight of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to leave the Earth and point the way to the stars
No matter how high Cold War tensions got, no matter how intense the space race became, even enemies were united by a love of dogs. One example of this is the story of Pushinka (“Fluffy”), one of the famous cosmonaut dog Strelka’s puppies, who settled down with the Kennedys.