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Description

A singing spaceman, a refugee who wants to beat gravity and a cosmonaut stuck in orbit. Three amazing stories from Outlook. Canadian astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield spent five months living on the International Space Station and won an online audience of millions with his tweets about daily life and his music recordings. Nujeen Mustafa was born with cerebral palsy, and for most of the first 16 years of her life had barely left her home in the Syrian city of Aleppo. She now lives in Germany and dreams about becoming an astronaut. Cosmonaut Abdul Ahad Mohmand is the only Afghan to have gone into space. It was 1988, in the last days of Russia's hold on Afghanistan, and Abdul went to visit the Mir space station with a Russian commander. But their attempts to return to earth didn't go according to plan.

Subtitle
A singing spaceman, a refugee who wants to beat gravity and a cosmonaut stuck in orbit.
Duration
1597
Publishing date
2018-02-17 19:07
Link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05yd4r0
Contributors
  BBC World Service
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Enclosures
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