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Adventures With Cosmonauts- An Unofficial History Of The Russian Space Program

10th May 2016 @ 19:30 - 21:30

When Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon in 1969 – the Americans entered history as the winners of the Space Race. This isn’t their story.

Micky Lachmann is going to talk about their competitors the Soviets, and how they managed to beat the Americans to almost every milestone in Space.

It’s a story we don’t know very well – the Soviets operated under a shroud of almost total secrecy. But some of the early cosmonauts are still alive and have incredible and often terrifying stories to tell. So this is also an account of going to Russia and trying to find these amazing – and mostly bad tempered – men and women.

Micky studied Natural Sciences and then dropped out of a PhD in tropical fish behaviour to work in science journalism. Over 15 years at the BBC he has worked on – among other things – Walking with Beasts, many Horizon’s and is partly responsible for bringing Brian Cox to our screens – for which he is very sorry.

£5 to cover costs with any extra going to charity

Details

Date:
10th May 2016
Time:
19:30 - 21:30

Venue

The Style and Winch
72 Union Street
Maidstone, Kent ME14 1ED United Kingdom

Organiser

Rob