Gagarin

It must be about 10 years since I first learned of Yuri Gagarin, the first man to orbit the Earth, when studying the play 'Gagarin's Way' at uni. Written by Gregory Burke, the play tells the story of a factory robbery gone wrong. Set in a mining town in Fife and named after a street that exists in real life, in Lumphinnans, that was named after the cosmonaut in the 1960s as an indication of the level of respect shown by the town's council and community to socialist Russia.

Fast-forward to 2015 and we have this:



This just in from the benefits of the space race:

The All-Russian Exhibition Center, the famous general trade exhibition center in Moscow, commonly referred as VDNKh, will begin to sell authentic cosmonaut food packed into toothpaste-style tubes, starting Friday.

Visitors of All-Russian Exhibition Center (VDNKh) will have a chance to try a full-course cosmonaut menu, including four kinds of soups, various meat dishes and a variety of deserts. According to organizers, there will be 11 variations of tubes, each tasting like a different kind of food.

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/art_living/20150205/1017833052.html#ixzz3RROE6lca

Oh, and Gregory Burke's still working - he wrote '71, which looks ace.