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  1. First night landing of Challenger (1983)

    Genre
    News report; Special

    Report from Edwards Air Force Base, California as the first ever night landing of the NASA space shuttle Challenger takes place after completing a perfect mission in space. With mission control commentary....

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  2. Galileo probe arrives at Jupiter (1995)

    Genre
    Speech

    NASA spokeswoman confirming the space probe Galileo, launched from the shuttle Atlantis in October 1989, has entered Jupiter’s atmosphere and begun transmitting data. Confirming the schedule for data...

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  3. To Engineer is Human1 (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Alex Nisbett
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows how engineeering science is subject to human limitations. Professor Henry Petroski contends that structures can fail in ways that have been dismissed as virtually impossible. Uses footage of some of...

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  4. Sun, The (2000)

    Subject
    Astronomy; Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 50 minutes), $195.00

    This film documents the life of our closest star and the forces that sustain it, following humanity’s fascination with the sun, from the primitive desert astronomy of Native Americans to the first...

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  5. Soviet coverage of Brixton riots (1981)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Report back on how the Brixton race riots have been covered in the Soviet media and on coverage of Columbia shuttle launch. Male field and female studio reporters not identified.

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  6. Channel tunnel to go ahead - AA on winning bid (1986)

    Genre
    Interview

    David Filsell of the Automobile Association is sceptical about the winning fixed-link Channel crossing bidder Channel Tunnel Group’s drive-on, drive-off shuttle trains, and disappointed with the decision...

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  7. Challenger disaster astronauts saluted (1986)

    Genre
    Speech; Tribute

    Tip O’Neill, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, pays tribute to the seven astronauts who died in the Challenger space shuttle disaster (28/01/86).

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  8. Michael Foale on space mission (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Tim Curtis interviews Michael Foale, thirty-two year old physicist from Cambridge, who has been working with NASA for seven years and is now being trained for a space shuttle mission in 1991. It seems likely...

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  9. Mechanisation of Textile Spinning, The (1984 Video)

    Producer
    Neil Cameron
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Illustrates the methods of working early textile machines, from the flying shuttle to the spinning mule. Engravings, cartoons and actual examples from Helmshare Higher Mill Museum are used. The final section...

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  10. Protoplasmic Streaming (1979 Film, Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The turbulent, circulatory or rotational streaming of cytoplasm and its variations (tramline-, mantle- and fountain-streaming) as well as shuttle-streaming shown in the following: ‘Allium’,...

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