TEDxVorobyovy-Gory - Oleg Shishkin - Coming Back From Heaven

Writer, researcher and presenter Oleg Shishkin shares his feelings about perception of outer space as a person born in 60-s when all he was dreaming about were interstellar journeys. TEDxVorobyovy-Gory - “Cosmos“ - took place on Saturday, March 19th, 2011 at Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow. The year of 2011 named in Russia as The Year of Astronautics, also it is the year when russians celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight commited by Yuri Gagarin and the 70 anniversary of his birth. This is why we devote our first conference in 2011 to the topic of Cosmos. Senior speakers from different fields of science, business and art gathered together to share their ideas about exploration of space. 12 talks reflect their achievements, inspirations, wishes and scientific discoveries. About TEDx, x = independently organised event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organised events that bring people together to share a