Sputnik 50 years ago - two pioneers remember
ESA TV Exchange
ESA TV asked two pioneers of spaceflight to share their recollections of the Sputnik launch and the spaceflight of Gagarin, and to look back at 50 years of spaceflight: these pioneers are Vladimir Remek, the first non-Russian and non-American to make a spaceflight, and Sigmund Jähn, the first (East)-German cosmonaut. Today, Remek is a Member of European Parliament.
The recordings were made at the space museum in Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz where Jähn was born, and the Exchange also feature archive material on the events the two pioneers disucss.
The script is online as a PDF file under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS52029.pdf
A Windows Media Player preview clip is available online under: http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mphi/50_years_DV_13-06-07_wmphigh.wmv
More backgroud information can be found on: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Space_Year_2007/index.html

50 years of Space ñ two pioneers look back
SHOTLIST
10.00.00 ESA Generic
10.00.30 Title
10.00.40 Here in Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz, in the rolling hills of south-East Germany, is the birth-place of Sigmund Jahn, the first German to take a trip to space. It was here he first heard of the beginning of the space age, 50 years ago. Today, the place is home to a space museum.
SOT Jähn
10.01.08 ""I was 9 years-old I remember the announcement...they said at night you could see Sputnik in a certain direction, from the South- East. We saw it but were surprised it wasn't bright or shining.""
10.01.29 The radio signal Sputnik broadcast across the world was confirmed by the Jodrell Bank radio telescope in the UK. It was a huge propaganda coup for the Soviet Union ...the U.S. had lost round one of the space race.
S JAHN
10.01.50 ""I remember in 1957, it was October the 4th. I wanted to learn how to fly. I was studying to be a pilot. We flew a Soviet p