2025-03-20
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This week on Witness History,
we're bringing you stories from the space race to mark a 60th anniversary that's out of this world.
How Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made the first spacewalk.
Plus, more on a speech that never was.
The words that US President Richard Nixon would have said
if the moon astronauts hadn't made it back to Earth.
And why the battle for space space supremacy ended in a handshake between the Americans and Soviets.
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BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts Hello, I'm Brian Cox.
I'm Robert Inks and this is the Infinite Monkey Cage.
Now, when I told Brian about today's show, I can tell you now,
he is the most excited I've ever seen because I said,
we are going to do the science of the Sound of Music.
And within like a. A split second, he came back into the office, he was wearing lederhosen.
He was yodeling about a lonely goat herd.
He was getting really excited to go,
Maybe we can deal with the quantum superposition of Brigadoon with My Fair Lady.
None of it's true.
What do you mean, none of it's true?