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Today in Mailbox: Sunday Music Show, Magazine, learning Czech, your answers
to the April mystery Czech quiz question, a brand new question for May.
Listeners quoted: Joe T. Vosoba, Ivan, Sam Beaton, Hans Verner Lollike, S.
J. Agboola, Prithwiraj Purkayastha, Chun-Quan Meng, Kifle, Henrik Klemetz,
Asifa Shaheen, Ian Morrison, Constantin Liviu Viorel, Mary Lou Krenek,
David Eldridge, Colin Law, Annette Harris, Jayanta Chakrabarty, Charles
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From the ArchivesSoyuz 28 and the cosmic brothers
On March 2 1978 - for the first time - a person was launched into space who
was neither a Soviet nor an American citizen. His name was Vladimír Remek,
and he came from Czechoslovakia. Millions of Czechs and Slovaks had the
chance to follow the event live both on radio and television, and it was
even celebrated in song:
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This week in Mailbox: the beneficial properties of sea water once again,
the Barrandov film studios in Prague, an Oscar for Czech musician Markéta
Irglová, the 30th anniversary of Czech cosmonaut Vladimír Remek’s
flight into space. Listeners quoted: Robert Fraser, Howard Barnett, Stephen
Hrebenach, Thomas Kuca.
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Current AffairsFirst non-superpower astronaut Remek says both sides used space exploration as propaganda
Thirty years ago Vladimír Remek became the first man in space who was not
from either the United States or the Soviet Union. Remek became a hero not
in only in his native Czechoslovakia but throughout the Eastern Bloc after
taking part in an eight-day Soviet space mission in March 1978. The former
cosmonaut spoke to me about his memories of that historic flight – and
the propaganda which accompanied it More
Czech ScienceAstronomy in the Czech lands III - Astronauts
Welcome to Czech Science. Last week Professor Jan Palous from the
Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences talked about
Czech-born astronomers who left Czechoslovakia during the communist era
and made their careers at foreign universities and research centres. Today
Professor Palous will be talking about Czech participation in one
important part of space research - manned missions to outer space.
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In this edition of Mailbox: TV stations broadcasting in Czech, Cosmonaut
Remek running as candidate to European parliament, winner of the
listeners' competition. Listeners quoted: Hynek Bartuska and Robin Heger.
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