What was it like to be a kid during the “space craze,” when “cosmic enthusiasm” was igniting imaginations on both sides of the Cold War divide? Join Dr. Roshanna P. Sylvester for an entertaining and enlightening historical tour of Soviet and American childhood from Sputnik to Apollo. Kids’ perspectives come to life through their letters to the pioneering spacefarers Yuri Gagarin, John Glenn, and Valentina Tereshkova. Space-themed toys, games, music, movies, and TV will also be part of the show. In the famous words of Yuri Gagarin, “let’s go!”

Co-sponsored by the UWM History Department, Center for Gravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics (CGCA), and the Russian and Eastern European Studies Undergraduate Certificate Program.