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  1. TEN YEARS ON: WINDING

    Date released
    Aug 1956
    Series name
    Mining Review 9th Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    345926
    Story no
    4 / 4

    BFI synopsis: changes in winding techniques over the past ten years. NCB Commentary - However much coal is won underground it all has to find its way to the surface up a shaft out of the mine. What changes...

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  2. One Small Step (1987 Video)

    Producer
    David Saunders
    Subject
    Information technology; Space science
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Looks at the way computers were used in the American space shuttle projects, particularly at computer systems in the shuttle orbiter and their relationship to the Mission Conrool unit at the Johnson Space...

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  3. Live from the Moon: Film, Television and the Space Race

    Date
    12 Dec 2011, 11:02
    Author
    bufvcsergio
    Post Type
    BUFVC Review

    By Michael Allen (IB Tauris, 2009). 240 pages. ISBN: 978-1845111700 (Paperback), £16.99; ISBN: 978-1845111694 (Hardback), £56 About the author: Dr Kate O’Riordan is Senior Lecturer in the Department of...

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  4. Jpl Story, The (1982 Film)

    Subject
    Space science
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Involvement of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the Californian Institute of Technology in spacecraft missions. Considers alternative energy sources, star spectrum analysis, infra-red imaging radar, ion...

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  5. Selling the Secret (1990 Video)

    Director
    Ross Wilson
    Producer
    Paul Murricane
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1993 sale: £20.00

    Follows the first steps taken by the Soviet Union to sell its exploitation of outer space to the West. Also captures the reactions of a group of Western businessmen in the Soviet Union to the environment in...

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  6. Short History of the Future, A: The Spaceship (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Sheila Hayman
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min.

    Compares spaceflight as portrayed in the cinema to it really is. The US space programme was started in the Walt Disney studios by Werner von Braun, and the first space shuttle was called Enterprise after the...

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  7. How Low Can You Go? (Part 2) (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Nick Brenton
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Looks at the technology required to achieve high vacuums. Shows a large chamber at NASA/JPL which is regularly evacuated for the testing of satellites and their components before they are launched into...

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  8. Apollo 17: On the Shoulders of Giants (1973 Video)

    Subject
    Space science
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 29 min., 1995 sale: £11 (+VAT + p&p)

    The final moon mission (launched 6 Dec 1972) was notable for the discovery of orange-coloured soil. The film includes activity at the ground centres, with specialists’ comments on both the mission and...

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  9. Design for an Alien World 1 (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Cameron Balbirnie
    Subject
    Astronomy; Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Tracks some of the development through 1992 of a space mission that will be launched towards Titan, the largest satellite of Saturn, in 1997. Closely follows two experiments being developed at the University...

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  10. British Space Programme: Projects Cancelled 1962 (2012)

    Subject
    History; Space science; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 76 minutes), £11.99

    Whilst the achievements and exploits of the Soviets and Americans in space exploration are well documented, the story of the British Space Programme is much less well known. Beginning in 1962 with the...

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