Yuri

Forty-Five years ago today, Yuri Gagarin blasted off in the Vostok 1 and became the first man in space. Yuri is up there on my all-time list of heroes, Ben and I believe in pushing our limits and SOUTH will certainly do that, but Yuri’s voyage was of a whole other order of magnitude. We rightly fete Armstrong and Aldrin for their achievements, but we often forget about Gagarin. Tonight, there are Yuri’s night parties going on across the globe in a bid to change that and we all should raise a glass and remember the short, cheerful man who strapped himself in above 150 tons of fuel, lit the fires and made the real great leap for mankind.