Giants are real, magic is real, and those blessed by the gods are able to perform superhuman feats of strength and agility. It is a world in which heroes battle monsters, great firedrakes slumber in ancient barrows, and raiders come from across the sea to despoil and conquer.

The world of Beowulf Beastslayer is the mythic world of the Viking legends, the Icelandic sagas, and the Anglo-Saxon epics. And he decreed that a mead-hall should be raised, the like of which had never been seen under heaven, and named it Heorot.'

The recording was played aboard the docked modules.'Fierce in battle, King Hrothgar, the Joy of the Danes, brought home more treasure from his conquests than any ring-giver before him. Twitty didn't learn the entire language to sing the one song instead, he sang the lyrics phonetically. In keeping with the spirit of goodwill between ideological enemies, Twitty recorded his song, called ' Privet Radost' in Russian, with the help of a language professor from the University of Oklahoma. The Russians were treated to a special song: a recording by Twitty, one of country music's biggest names, singing one of his biggest songs: 'Hello Darlin''- in Russian. The Soviets played ' Nezhnost' ('Tenderness') by Maya Kristalinskaya and the Americans played War's 'Why Can't We Be Friends?'Ĭountry music, being uniquely American, also made its way to the Apollo-Soyuz mission. A Soviet Soyuz mission and the American Apollo mission took off within hours of each other with the primary mission of docking together in space.įor 44 hours, three American astronauts and two Soviet cosmonauts met miles above the Earth, conducting experiments, eating together and listening to music.

It was the last time an Apollo capsule would make the trip into space and the last American spaceflight until the Space Shuttle program launched in 1981. We might forget this historic mission today, despite the millions of people who watched it on television. Leonov make their historic handshake in space on Jduring the joint US-USSR Apollo Soyuz Test Project. Stafford (in foreground) and cosmonaut Aleksei A.

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