2025-03-22
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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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Hello, I'm in Tbilisi, the capital city of Georgia.
I'm standing right now in Freedom Square, or Liberty Square.
It was named this after Georgia gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
Right in the center, there's a huge gold statue of St. George.
He's on his horse slaying the dragon.
I can see Georgian and European flags flying from some of the very European looking buildings.
Georgia is a country situated where Europe meets Asia and it shares a massive border with Russia.
And you can see all of these influences in the city as well.
You can see Persian elements in the old town, Soviet murals and European style boulevards.
Georgia is a country with just under 4 million people and it's famous for its delicious food,
especially the dumplings khinkalis.