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Mice and Monkey Float in Space

Date released

2 Oct 1952

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2253

NoS ID

043966

Story no

7 / 7

US Air Force sends two white mice and a monkey in specially designed rocket to see whether life is possible eighty miles up.

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Deep Space Cd-Rom (1997 Multimedia)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

CD-ROM

High-resolution colour images of deep space from the Hubble space telescope, complemented by earth-based telescoipephotographs and views of earth from the sapce shuttle. Interactive menus allow the user to...

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Space at Work (1988 Video)

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col.

Includes sections on satellite design and space telecommunications including footage of the large space simulator at the European Space Agency laboratories. Space telecommunications are dealt with mainly...

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Balloon Launch for Space Rocket

Date released

4 Nov 1957

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

2849

NoS ID

158234

Story no

11 / 11

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The Gun-Launched Space Probe

Date released

1968

Series name

London Line (Colour series 2)

Issue no

31

NoS ID

326130

Story no

1 / 4

COI synopsis: London Line reports on film from Barbados on the research work carried out by scientists at Britain’s Sussex University, and in the studio Michael Smee talks to Dr Pamela Rothwell about the...

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Space Conquest: The First Twenty Five Years (2009)

Subject

Space science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £12.99

This film about the historic Apollo 11 space mission and the history of NASA features archive footage of the take-off from the Kennedy Space Centre, the moon landing and the astronauts’ return home as well...

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Mir Mortals (1998 Video)

Producer

Jill Fullerton-Smith

Subject

Space science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Tells the story of four men who orbited the earth in 1997 on board the ill-fated space station ‘Mir’. With both the future of manned space flight and their lives in balance, the astronauths and...

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Boys and Girls Exhibition: Any More for the Space Ship?

Date released

30 Aug 1956

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2661

NoS ID

046814

Story no

2 / 9

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list, 1 programme

Accent on space travel pleases youngsters at holiday exhibition.

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Apollo 15: The Mountains of the Moon (1971 Video)

Subject

Space science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. sd. col. 28 min., 1995 sale: £11 (+VAT + p&p)

The mission which yielded the ‘Genesis rock’. Includes the Lunar Rover excursions near Hadley Rille, a space-walk to retrieve film from the craft’s cameras and the placing on the moon of a plaque...

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Space Shuttle ‘Discovery’ (1994 Video)

Director

Stuart Carter

Producer

Stuart Carter; Heather Couper

Subject

Space science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1994 sale: £25.85 (inclusive) (Academy) 1995 sale: £12.99 (inclusive) (retail)

In-depth view of a space shuttle mission. Reveals how the shuttle Discovery is launched, how it is manoeuvred in orbit, the sophisticated systems that keep the onboard astronauts alive, how and where they...

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