I heard this story, The Space Age, on NPR.
I went to Stardate's website to read the script by Damond Benningfield.
When the Soviet Union's satellite Sputnik 1 went into orbit, the Space Age was born according to this story.
Just to say Soviet Union dates this event to before the Wall came down between East and West Germany, and the time of the "breakaway" republics.
Now after the cold war, Astronauts from the USA and Cosmonauts from Russia work together, from time to time, at the International Space Station.
I met one of those Astronauts, Bill Shepherd, at the Science Museum of Virginia several years ago.
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