Plenary 1: 60th Anniversary Yuri Gagarin’s Spaceflight
Day: Tuesday 15 June 2021
Time: 11:00-11:55 MSK
In 2021 the entire global community will celebrate the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first space flight, a truly significant event with which the era of practical space exploration began and forever changed the world. GLEX 2021 will feature a special Plenary dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s spaceflight. More than 15 international astronauts and cosmonauts are invited to this highlight event and will give their tribute to the first man in space and the beginning of humankind’s space flight era.
Moderator
Franz VIEHBOCK
Astronaut and CEO, Berndorf AG
Austria
Speakers
Anatoly ARTSEBARSKY
Cosmonaut
Russia
Mike BAKER
Astronaut and Advisor, Rhodium Scientific
United States
Jean-Loup CHRETIEN
Astronaut and CEO, Tietronix Europe
France
Reinhold EWALD
Astronaut and Professor of Astronautics, University of Stuttgart
Germany
Claudie HAIGNERÉ
Astronaut and Director General, JPCH Espaces
France
Jean-Pierre HAIGNERÉ
Astronaut and President, JPCH Espaces
France
Ulf MERBOLD
Astronaut
Germany
Julie PAYETTE
Astronaut and Former Governor General of Canada
Canada
Dumitru-Dorin PRUNARIU
Astronaut and Expert, Romanian Association for Space Technology and Industry, Member, Board of the Romanian Space Agency, ROMSPACE
Romania
Sergei REVIN
Cosmonaut
Russia
Aleksandr SKVORTSOV
Cosmonaut
Russia
