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In the ten-part series, WDR travels back to the 90s - to a time when cell phones were still pressed to the ear like giant bones, music stations such as EinsLive and Viva were launched and the old Ruhr area became a local recreation area.
The year 1997 gave much cause for celebration.
Schalke 04 fought for the UEFA final and got a new stadium anthem in the process.
In Dortmund, newborns were called "Lars".
The Ruhr region fought for its future and let flowers do the talking.
The comet Hale-Bopp was visible to the naked eye and turned many people in NRW into amateur astronomers.
And Reinhold Ewald reached for the stars.
Reinhold Ewald, a genuine astronaut from Mönchengladbach, was trained in Cologne and Moscow and embarked on his first space flight.
Next stop: MIR, the Russian space station.
Around the world in 90 minutes.
In his luggage: a mixtape with "Space Music".
The dramatic highlight of the journey: a fire on board the MIR.
But the crew quickly got it under control.
And Ewald later landed safely in the Kazakh steppe.
