The History Hour

The history of space travel


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Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.

This week we’re looking at the history of space travel, including the 60th anniversary of the first ever space-walk by Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov.
Also, the speech that would have been given if the Apollo 11 astronauts didn’t make their way back from the moon; the founding of the European Space Agency and how Brazil came back from tragedy to launch their fist successful rocket.
The Sky at Night’s Dr Ezzy Pearson joins us to tell us about the history of robot’s in space and the Soviet Union’s exploration of Venus.
Contributors:
Archive of Alexei Leonov – the first man to walk in space
Dr Ezzy Pearson – Features Editor for the BBC’s Sky at Night magazine
Felix Palmerio – engineer for Brazil’s space programme
Archive of William Safire – speechwriter for US President Richard Nixon
Bill Holland – former historian for NASA
Andrea Amaldi – grandson of Edoardo Amaldi, one of the founding fathers of the European Space Agency

(Photo: Alexei Leonov on his first space walk in 1965. Credit: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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