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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...
Marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope by tracing its history of triumph, disaster and eventual success. It has succeeded in sending back enough data for scientists to...
A celebration of the 500th anniversary of John Cabot’s voyage of discovery from Bristol to Newfoundland in North America and follows the original voyage of the ‘Mathew’, from the buiding of the...
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...
Discusses the design and construction of the Pathfinder space probe, which landed on Mars on 4 July 1997 and returned data for the following three months. Also looks at the challenges of launching a trip to...
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....
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...
Programmes compiled from NASA footage, each introduced by a well-known American astronaut. Each tape contains two programmes. 1: FRIENDSHIP SEVEN: The story of the ‘Freedom 7’, America’s first manned...
Describes Britain’s involvement in space, with 12 topics providing an overview of space in history, explaining why it is important and what it has to offer. Combines text and pictures with sound and...
In 1994 the space probe Magellan burned up after a decade in orbit around Venus. It produced extraordinary images of the planet’s surface but also revealed a mass of geological puzzles that threaten to...
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