June 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
... shuttle launch cost the US around $450 million.1 A Russian poster from 1961, “Glory to the First Cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin!” In the 1980s and 1990s it was assumed that it would be possible to reduce costs in the space sector in the...
July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
... own The period from the origins of the Earth to Yuri Gagarin’s flight, might then be called ‘Pre-overview effect ...very early form of science fiction. More recently, but still before Gagarin’s flight, Theodore L Thomas wrote a short story called ‘The ...
December 2014
Before Rosetta: Svetlana Gerasimenko’s story
I was 16 when Yuri Gagarin went to space. I remember the day: we had a maths test at school and, since I had finished early, I stepped ...
March 2016
Time for European visionary goals
... visionary leaders made uneasy decisions about uniting Europe, taking the legacy of democratic society to new levels. Yuri Gagarin - the 55th anniversary of his historic spaceflight was celebrated on 12 April They looked into the future, well...
September 2017
Spaceflight studies support geriatric health on Earth
... 15. IAA Humans in Space Symposium 2005. He received a NASA Space Act Tech Brief Award (1986) and the Yuri-Gagarin-Decoration (1999). Amal Ezzeddine is a senior executive with over 22 years of experience across many disciplines serving the...
June 2019
Asgardia’s parliament – a year of progress
... barbequed by the Sun. By contrast, one year on, Asgardia does not regard Christopher Columbus, the Wright Brothers, Yuri Gagarin or Neil Armstrong as actors in an odyssey which ended around 1972. We think that the narrative in which they starred...
