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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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Current AffairsUS astronaut of Czechoslovak descent recalls moon landings and pioneering spacewalk
Retired US astronaut Eugene Cernan is one of only three people to have
landed on the moon twice. In fact, he is the last human being to have
walked on the moon: as commander of the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, he was
the last astronaut to re-enter the Apollo Lunar Module before the crew
returned to Earth. As the name might suggest, Mr Cernan is of Czechoslovak
descent. Indeed, he carried Czechoslovakia’s flag with him on his final
space flight. He told me why:
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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 Science"The Last Man on the Moon" to visit Czech Republic
The last man to walk on the surface of the Moon, the American astronaut of
Czech descent, Eugene Cernan, is going to visit the Czech Republic this
month.
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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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