In the 40-odd years since Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space, some 400 others — including Linda Godwin (left) and Jerry Ross, shown above in the weightless conditions on board Atlantis — have made the same remarkable journey. Serge Brunier looks back at the highs and lows in Space Odyssey: The First Forty Years of Space Exploration (Cambridge University Press, £25).
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Tripping the light fantastic. Nature 417, 592 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/417592b
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