The USSR’s Forgotten Cosmonaut: The Incredible Story of Gherman Titov

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Join us for a webinar presentation on Cosmonaut Gherman Titov, the second human to orbit the earth in 1961!
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About Stephen Walker

Stephen Walker was born in London. He has a BA in History from Oxford and an MA in the History of Science from Harvard.

Stephen is an award-winning documentary filmmaker as well as a writer. His films have won BAFTAs, an Emmy, Royal Television Society awards and Europe’s most prestigious documentary prize, the Rose d’Or.

Stephen is the author of Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima, a New York Times bestseller and a riveting narrative of the final three weeks before the dropping of the atomic bomb in August 1945. The book was re-published in a new edition by Harper Collins in August 2020 on the seventy-fifth anniversary of a shattering event which changed history.

His second book, Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey Into Space recounts the story of Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.  Drawing on extensive original research and the vivid testimony of eyewitnesses, many of whom have never spoken before, Stephen Walker unpacks secrets that were hidden for decades and takes the reader into the drama of one of humanity’s greatest adventures – to the scientists, engineers and political leaders on both sides, and above all to the American astronauts and their Soviet rivals battling for supremacy in the heavens. Beyond was the winner of the 2022 Space Hipsters Book Prize Award.