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The Cuban Missile Crisis has begun.
This is the bomb from the BBC World Service, Season 3,
Kennedy and Khrushchev, the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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It's a living, breathing organism that has protected my friends.
Lift off is set to occur 52 minutes 47 seconds after the hour.
There is the most expensive project ever completed by humans.
We have ignition and lift off of the Soyuz rocket beginning the first expedition to the International Space Station.
This is a spacecraft traveling at 17,500 miles an hour with eight or ten people living and working there 365 days a year.
Soyuz heading toward a link up with the International Space Station two days from now.
On November the 2nd, 2000, history was made.
I'm so proud of what the three of you have done and everyone here on the ground that has worked with you to bring us to this moment.
Two Russians and one American entered the International Space Station for a 136 day mission.
Let's look upon this as the real opening of the International Space Frontier,
not just for a country,
but for Russia, America, Europe, Japan, Canada, and all that is to follow.
The first residents of the ISS,
they began a quarter of a century of unbroken human presence in space.
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