Audio - Rewind: Yuri Gagarin's legacy, 50 years on: securing the vision for the next half century
Audio - Rewind: Yuri Gagarin’s legacy, 50 years on: securing the vision for the next half century YOU CAN LISTEN TO THIS LECTURE BELOW, VISIT THE SOCIETY'S 'SOUNDCLOUD' & SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE VIA ITUNES & THE SOUNDCLOUD APP 60 years ago, 27-year-old Russian cosmonaut Yuri Alexeivich Gagarin was strapped into a Vostok capsule and launched 188 miles out into space. On a spring morning at 06.07 am UT on April 12th 1961, ascending slowly from a Baikonur cosmodrome launch-pad set in the Kazakhstan steppes, he was to make history. Gagarin became the first ever human being to leave the Earth's...
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