Cosmonauts: The First Gay Man In Space

Cosmonauts: Birth Of The Space Age, The Science Museum, London, from September 18th.

The cosmonauts who wanted to paint the stars red, The Times.

Yuri's Night: Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

PS Yuri's Night is also Fagburn's anniversary!

Fagburn: On Yuri Gagarin's 80th Birthday

I wish Yuri Gagarin went to the moon.

Amerikkka spent 4% of its gross domestic product trying to beat him to it.

While killing countless millions in Indo-China, innit.

I wish Yuri Gagarin went to to the moon.

But the moon's a balloon.

So fuck you.

Yuri Gagarin 50: Star Man

Love you lots, Yuri.

x

PS Fagburn is also celebrating its first birthday today.

Yuri Gagarin 50: Countdown Is Progressing

There is one week to go before the world celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of USSR cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becoming the first hu/man in space.
You can find out more about Gagarin and the celebrations to mark this epoch-making event at YuriGagarin50.org
Gagarin 50 - The Exhibition opens at the Waterside Centre, Sale, Manchester on April 9th.
BBC Radio 4 broadcasts the documentary The Communist Cosmos on Monday April 4th.
Fagburn is listening to it now.
Rona Munro's RSC play about the Soviet space programme, Little Eagles, opens at the Hampstead Theatre, London on April 16th.
BBC Science has an all-singin' all-orbitin' interactive page about Comrade Gagarin here.
Salute!