A Personal History of Soviet Space Exploration

 

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What kind of relationships can be found in an offical state archive and the extended family’s collection of 35mm transparencies? Two stories collide: the exploits of Yuri Gagarin, first man in space, and Roy and Dorothy ‘Pop’ French, intrepid package holiday travellers in the late 1960s…

Published as part of the exhibition A Personal History of Soviet Space Exploration, Alaska Projects, Sydney, October 1-12, 2014, in a limited edition of ten.