JULY 2024 TALK

July saw another of our summer members talks from Phil Schneider who spoke about YURI GAGARIN.  Starting with Yuri’s early life, through the technical and cosmonaut training years and ultimate selection for the Soviet space program. Phil also described the immense hardship and challenges Gagarin and his family had to overcome.  Gararin completed the first space flight on 12 April 1961 spending some 108 minutes in space.  The last part of the talk followed Yuri’s world tour, his post-cosmonaut career and his untimely death in an aircraft accident in 1968 aged just 34.