Sparking the Space Age.- A few good Soviet men.- Russia’s future spacemen.- Training days.- Selecting the first cosmonaut.- “Poyekhali”: A man in space.- Vostok flights continue.- The “missing” cosmonauts: Rumour and reality.- First woman of space.- A tragedy, and Gagarin’s final flight.- Pushing the limits.- Orbits of co-operation and the end of an era.