 In the late 1950s, two Italian brothers, Achille and Giovanni Giudica Cordiglia, became fascinated by the early space endeavors of the Soviets and Americans. The pair, keen amateur radio buffs, were excited about the prospect of trying to capture and record transmissions from these early missions. Using borrowed and scavenged equipment, they set up a listening station in an old World War II bunker on the outskirts of Turin that they dubbed Tora Burt.