No title. Venus calling - British radio telescope listened across space to Soviet probe at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire.
Angle shot of radio telescope, panning down from antenna. Various shots of telescope. We hear crackling static sound - narrator explains this was the noise transmitted across space...
No title. Venus calling - British radio telescope listened across space to Soviet probe at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire.
Angle shot of radio telescope, panning down from antenna. Various shots of telescope. We hear crackling static sound - narrator explains this was the noise transmitted across space by the Russian probe. M/S astronomer at controls. More shots of telescope.
Soviet cosmonaut / astronaut - Valeri Bykovski - arrives by plane at London airport.
L/S Illyushin Airliner taxiing at London Airport. C/U insignia. M/S cosmonaut coming down steps of aircraft. L/S crowd gathered around cosmonaut. A girl presents Bykovski with a bouquet. Various C/Us Bykovski.
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