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  1. Space - It’s Great, by Gemini!

    Date released
    12 Jun 1966
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    66/47
    NoS ID
    112112
    Story no
    4 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe News presents direct from space amazing film of Gemini 9’s attempt to link up with the target rocket 180 miles above the Earth. The film also vividly shows for the first time a spacecraft re-entering...

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  2. Warming Warning (1981 Video)

    Producer
    Richard Broad
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min.

    The carbon dioxide content of the earth’s atmosphere acts like the glass in a greenhouse. Burned at the present rate, the resulting emission of carbon dioxide will have warmed the earth’s atmosphere by...

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  3. Meteor shower to hit Earth (1978)

    Genre
    Interview

    Astronomer Dr John Gribbin discusses the likelihood of a meteor shower on Earth, which has occurred before, and is a natural phemomenon. This is nothing to be worried about, he says, and is comparable to a...

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  4. Broadcasting Live ... From Space

    Date
    29 Oct 2015, 08:21
    Author
    Ben Hodson
    Post Type
    BUFVC Article

    In March 2014 Channel 4 promised to let viewers share live the experience of being an astronaut on the International Space Station. Dr Michael Allen, Birkbeck, University of London, considers the perils and...

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  5. Actuality of space shuttle Columbia (1981)

    Genre
    Special

    Recording of NASA mission control’s radio communication from Houston with the Columbia space shuttle as it prepares to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere after its maiden flight into space. Speaking...

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  6. Another Aerial Triumph for Britain

    Date released
    8 Feb 1932
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    1892; Super Issue No.: 32/11
    NoS ID
    089676
    Story no
    3 / 6
    Extras
    1 film clip

    The Vicker’s ‘Jockey’ Jupiter-engined all metal interception plane - at final trials touches 240 mph in rarefied atmosphere 7 miles above the earth.

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  7. Meteorology: An Introduction to the Wonders of the Weather (2013)

    Subject
    Earth Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 720 minutes), £54.99

    Professor Robert G. Fovell, from the University of California, Los Angeles, introduces the fundamental concepts of meteorology including, the structure of the atmosphere, the physics of gases, liquids and...

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  8. What to Do About Co (1984 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 39 min.

    The term ‘greenhouse effect’ is becoming commonplace. It concerns the global problem of increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. This increase, it is predicted, will produce a warming of the...

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  9. NASA view on doomed Skylab (1978)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with Robert Aller, NASA, where he suggests there is no way of predicting where the doomed Slylab space station will crash after it re-enters the earth’s atmosphere. Male interviewer not...

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  10. Renewable Energy: Fluidyne

    Date released
    1975
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    155
    NoS ID
    325647
    Story no
    1 / 10

    COI synopsis: The coal and oil we rely on for fuel will one day run out; even the fuel for conventional nuclear reactors is in short supply. Yet every day the sun pumps a massive amount of energy into the...

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