A woman is driving home from work one day when she hears an ad on the radio that changes her life. “Astronaut Wanted No Experience Necessary.” This unassuming Brit who worked in the Mars Bar factory in the suburbs would end up traveling with our cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev on the mission he almost didn’t come home from. An effort to save the Soviet space program, birthed commercial space travel. Like what you hear? Follow us @kscope_nyc on Twitter and Instagram. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Find a cash leafy here.
A cadot card for a Le Ho ho Ho.
The one for all cadot.
Cards in Cad dies in the Coasters.
27 year old Helen Sharman makes her way to her car.
She's a chemist at the Mars Chocolate factory and she's on the way home.
Her days are filled with questions about the right kind of toffee to use on chocolate ice cream or how long a Mars bar will survive in the heat.
She likes her job.
Get up, go to work, come home a regular nine to five that day, Helen turns out of the factory car park and quickly hits the rush hour traffic.
She sighs and turns the radio up loud.
On it, a newscaster is going through the day's headlines.
It's early summer 1989, and in Hungary the communist regime has just been overthrown.
Which could end 40 years of one party rule.
An IRA bomb has gone off at a British military base.
Believe the attack may herald a summer of terror.
260 people arrested at Stonehenge for celebrating the summer solstice.
Protesters moving towards Stonehenge.
Helen starts flicking through the channels.
I mean, number one for the new.
Single, yeah, Bowling change has been made.