On This Day: August 20

Accompanied by Dr. Michelle Thaller, an astronomer and the assistant director for science communication at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Encyclopædia Britannica's Kurt Heintz visits two major planetary anniversaries. Later, how B.K.S. Iyengar introduced yoga to the Western world and the 1968 "Czech Spring" in the Cold War.
Host: Kurt Heintz.

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