Poland Can Into Space: a meme turned into reality | The Warsaw Wire Talks with Wojciech Brzeziński

Thirteen years ago, “Poland Can Into Space” was just an internet meme, a joke about ambition and national pride.As it turns out, underdog success stories aren’t only for the movies. Sometimes they happen in real life, and Poland’s booming space industry has proven the internet jokesters wrong.In this episode of The Warsaw Wire, Alicja Ptak speaks with Wojciech Brzeziński, science journalist and Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, about how Poland went from having almost no space industry to becoming one of Europe’s fastest-growing space players.They discuss how ambition, smart public investment, and growing technical expertise helped Poland build satellites, join international missions, and send an astronaut back into orbit after nearly 50 years.