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The awe-inspiring story of the Space Shuttle program.
Unlike any spacecraft we had ever flown before.
Told by the men and women who made it happen.
This is a vacuum.
This is space.
This is the Space Shuttle.
And liftoff, liftoff of STS-7 and America's first woman astronaut.
From the BBC World Service, 13 Minutes presents The Space Shuttle.
Oh, this is really beautiful out here.
Listen now wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
This is The Fifth Floor,
at the heart of global storytelling with BBC journalists from all around the world.
I'm your host, Faranak Amidi.
This is the story of family ties lost and found,
and of questions that remained unanswered for over half a century.
It all started with a boy, a soldier, and a duffel bag.
The soldier hid the boy in a tula, as they say in Colombia,
which is a type of big bag that soldiers use to put their belongings in.