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SUMMARY:“Gagarin\, Zvyozdochka and Prime Minister Macmillan: the Build-u
 p to and Aftermath of the First Human Spaceflight” with Doug Millard - D
 oug Millard\, the Science Museum
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CONTACT:Ksenia Afonina
DESCRIPTION:Yuri Gagarin conducted the first human spaceflight in April 19
 61. His success and personality won him admirers around the world\, includ
 ing the thousands in Britain who welcomed him to these shores later that y
 ear. But Gagarin’s flight only happened once preceding missions with dog
 s were safely returned to Earth from orbit. This talk looks at the Soviet 
 space heroes of 1961\, canine and human\, and the fame of Gagarin as he vi
 sited London and Manchester in July\, 1961.\n\nWHEN: Thursday\, 8 April 20
 21\, 19:00 (GMT)\n\nWHERE: Zoom\n\nLANGUAGE: English\n\nTICKETS: Free*\n\n
 Please register in advance here\,\n\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regis
 ter/tZAtduqorj8jG9PDqauC_1UG8aUWCEdrsnK9\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\nDoug Mi
 llard is Deputy Keeper Technologies and Engineering. He has produced many 
 space exhibitions\, written articles\, papers and books including a histor
 y of the Black Arrow satellite launch vehicle and its engines\, lectured w
 idely and appeared on television and radio. In 2006 he gained his MSc in t
 he History of Science\, Technology and Medicine at the University of Londo
 n. In April 2012 he co-organised with the UK Space Agency a conference hel
 d at the Science Museum to mark the 50th anniversary of the Ariel 1 satell
 ite. He was senior curator for the ‘Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age
 ’ exhibition (2015) and editor of the associated publication. His book 
 ‘Satellite: Innovation in Orbit’ was published by Reaktion Books early
  2017. In 2016 he curated the acquisition and display of the Soyuz TMA-19M
  descent module – used by Tim Peake\, Yuri Malenchenko and Tim Kopra dur
 ing their mission to and from the International Space Station\, 2015-16 
 – along with the associated virtual reality experience Space Descent VR.
  In 2019 he organised the Culture Space research programme of three worksh
 ops that investigated new ways of representing space exploration in the mu
 seum gallery. In 2020 he contributed to a BBC Radio 4 programme on the lif
 e of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. He is currently developing with colleagues a 
 major research programme on global perspectives of space exploration that 
 will inform development of a new space gallery at the Science Museum later
  this decade.\n\n\nFor more information about CamRuSS\, please visit our w
 ebsite\,\nhttp://www.camruss.com/\n\n\n* While there is no charge for our 
 online events\, CamRuSS would welcome any donations towards the support of
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LOCATION:Zoom
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