Current Affairs First 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
Alexej Gubarev and Vladimír Remek in 1978
Back
