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Timelessness

Date released

1970

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

27

NoS ID

325352

Story no

1 / 3

COI synopsis: Journeys that took our ancestors many months to accomplish can now be made in hours. You don’t have to be an astronaut to play havoc with the time zones of the earth. How dangerous is the...

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Planet Mars: The Red Planet (1997 Video)

Subject

Space science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min.

NASA pictures from the Viking space probe, launched in 1975. Shows the volcanoes and frozen polar regions of Mars, and shows how information about Mars is valuable in measuring the earth’s evolution....

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Ninth Configuration, The (1979 Film)

aka: Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane.

Director

William Peter Blatty

Producer

William Peter Blatty

Feature film. Theological thriller in which some critics have seen parallels with Hamlet in its theme of madness. In a gothic castle called Center 18, the US military attempts to establish whether a group...

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Astronaut’s View of Earth, An (1999 Video)

Subject

Geography; Space science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 48 min., 1999 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

Footage of the earth from space, including an ‘earthrise’ from the moon and a full circle of the earth taken from a space shuttle orbiting 180 miles above the earth. One can see coral reefs, entire seas,...

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New Words

Date released

1965

Series name

London Line

Issue no

52

NoS ID

352875

NoS synopsis: Penguin’s new paperback dictionary contains all the new words of the 1960s, such as Astronaut, Motorway and Hovercraft, even ‘jitney’ a 5 cent American coin.

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Life in Space (1996 Video)

Director

Peter Howell

Producer

Harold Kroto

Subject

Physics; Space science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1997 sale: £12.50 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Helen Sharman, the UK’s first female astronaut, gives an account of her personal experiences of life in space, using models and film to illustrate the key scientific concepts involved in space flight....

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Apollo 11 - A Night to Remember (2009)

Subject

Astronomy; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 133 minutes), £19.99

On July 20 1969, Apollo 11 became the first manned spacecraft to land on the moon. Piloted by veteran astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, Apollo 11 took its place in history, as one...

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Space (13 Parts) (1997 Video)

Subject

Space science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 6 x 60 min., 1997 sale: £12.99 each part (inclusive)

A series investigating the universe using video recordings taken from space. Filmed by astronaut Claude Nicollier, with contributions from scientists and experts at the European Space Agency. 1: Images of...

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Timelessness

Date released

1970

Series name

Tomorrow Today

Issue no

27

NoS ID

329404

Story no

1 / 3

COI synopsis: Journeys that took our ancestors many months to accomplish can now be made in hours. You don’t have to be an astronaut to play havoc with the time zones of the earth. How dangerous is the...

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Chemistry of Survival, The (1995 Video)

Producer

Science Production Group

Subject

Chemistry

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the way chemistry can play a helpful role in some very different aspects of survival: in India the recycling of equipment enables students to use what would otherwise be prohibitively expensive...

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