| Event Name: | The Men Who Fell to Earth: How Russia-s Pilots, Parachutists and Pioneers Won the Space Race |
| Description: | In the 1950s and 1960s Sergei Korolev and the Soviet space programme laid a path to the stars. Now Russia is our only lifeline to the technologies and machines we have put in orbit.
Simon Ings is joined by Doug Millard, Senior Curator of ICT & Space Technology at London’s Science Museum, to trace Russia’s centuries-old obsession with flight.
This was the nation that erected skydiving towers in its playgrounds, built planes so large and so strange the rest of the world thought they were fakes, and outdid Germany and the US in its cinematic portrayal of space. The nation’s soaring imagination continues to astonish the world.
The talk coincides with 50th anniversary of pioneering space travel by Yuri Gagarin.
Tickets: £7, conc. £5 (Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs)
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| Type of Event: | Astronomy - Space Events |
| Event Agenda: | Talk
The Men Who Fell to Earth: How Russia's Pilots, Parachutists and Pioneers Won the Space Race
by Simon Ings and Doug Millard
RUSSIA'S OTHER CULTURE: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE 20TH CENTURY
Language: In English
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| Event Location: | PUSHKIN HOUSE |
| Event City: | London |
| Type of Venue: | Cultural Center |
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| Directions: | The Main Entrance is located on Bloomsbury Way, across the road from the Swedenborg Society building.
The nearest tube stations are Holborn, Tottenham Court Road and Russell Square.
There is a secure public car park in Bloomsbury Square.
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| Event Start Date | 22-Nov-11 |