Sputnik years - Space Pirates

Production
2007, France
Italian
00:52:30
Genre
documentary
space, history of science
Enrico Cerasuolo, Paolo Ceretto, Alesandro Bernard
Enrico Cerasuolo, Paolo Ceretto, Alesandro Bernard

Only few people know the story of these pioneers of space communications, the brothers Achille and Giovanni Battista Judica-Cordiglia. In the early 1960s, these amateurs and tinkerers of genius successfully pick up signals from the first top secret Russian and US space missions. Back on this extraordinary adventure.