Current Affairs First non-superpower astronaut Remek says both sides used space exploration as propaganda

04-03-2008 16:57 | Ian Willoughby

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

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