Month: April 2011

  • Piccard in Space

    A couple of weeks ago, saw the premiere of Will Gregory’s Piccard in Space at the Southbank. Before you think anything else: no this is not about Jean-Luc Picard, the fictional Star Trek character, but August Piccard (although if Wikipedia is to be believed, there is a link). In 1931, Piccard and Paul Kipfer attempted…

  • Yuri Gagarin

    On April 12th it will have been 50 years since Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in outer space. There are a fair few programmes coming up devoted to this anniversary, so I thought I’d link to a few. First of all, here’s a great piece from Robin McKie in The Observer a…