Special edition of Sky at Night Magazine celebrates manned spaceflight anniversary
Sky at Night Magazine is this week celebrating the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s historic first spaceflight, with a 116-page limited collector’s edition.
Man in Space will feature articles by leading spaceflight writers and rarely-seen photos of astronauts and their spacecraft, from the earliest test flights, to the present and future of spaceflight with privately owned companies such as Virgin Galactic.
"It's incredible just how much has happened in space since Yuri Gagarin's epic journey 50 years ago,” said Graham Southorn, editor of Sky at Night Magazine and Man In Space. “Man In Space tells the whole story, from those iconic early days to long-duration stays in space stations. We bring the whole story right up to date as space is now truly opening up to commercial organisations." Man In Space is the latest collector’s edition from Sky at Night Magazine and follows Man on the Moon, which was launched in June 2009 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo landings, and Space 3D, BBC Magazines’ first ever 3D title, which went on sale in September 2009. A fully-digitised version of Man In Space will be released next week as an app for the iPad and android tablets, and will feature additional content and interactive elements.