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Dreams in Orbit

March 17, 2022 @ 12:50 pm - 1:50 pm

Children’s Letters to Gagarin, Glenn, & Tereshkova

Roshanna Sylvester, University of Colorado Boulder

Norman Hall 2014

How did children and youth in the early space age respond to the dawn of human space travel? How did the flights of early cosmonauts and astronauts impact young peoples’ senses of self and life possibilities? Join Dr. Roshanna P. Sylvester for an exploration of similarities and differences in letters written by Soviet and American young people to pioneering spacefarers Yuri Gagarin, John Glenn, and Valentina Tereshkova.

This is part of the CES Lunchtime Symposium series – lunch provided

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Date:
March 17, 2022
Time:
12:50 pm - 1:50 pm