The Schoolboys Who Cracked the Soviet Secret Nova : Season 16 Episode 20
TV-PG PBS 1h 00m int(0)
Aired: March 21st, 1989 @ 9:00 PM EST on PBS
The Schoolboys Who Cracked the Soviet Secret recreates the story of a British schoolteacher and his students who discovered secrets of the Soviet space program. In the 1960s, Geoffrey Perry at the Kettering Grammar School gave his students used short wave radios for a science project, but the school project had international reach when the group connected with Soviet transmissions.