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An analysis of the US government’s Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI). A description of what it means, who pays for and controls it, and whether it is likely to succeed.
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...
Twelve 12-minute programmes. 1: A ride into space. 2: Venus and Mercury. 3: Earth and Mars. 4: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus. 5: Orian and related bodies. 6: Includes footage of a total eclipse of the sun. 7: A...
An account of the space journeys of NASA’s two robot spacecrafts ‘Voyager 1’ and ‘Voyager 2’ and their photographic records of the planet Jupiter.
Suggests that investment in space technology is perhaps a ‘flight from reality’ with so many problems on earth requiring urgent attention. Discusses the benefits that have and will be experienced,...
Carl Sagan’s introduction to the Red Planet from the Royal Institution’s Christmas Lectures series from 1977 is streamed here by the Ri Channel as part of a collection of videos gathered under the...
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...
Shows the various stages of the mission from blast-off to splashdown, including in some detail the lunar scientific experiments and rock-collecting.
The mission which yielded the ‘Genesis rock’. Includes the Lunar Rover excursions near Hadley Rille, a space-walk to retrieve film from the craft’s cameras and the placing on the moon of a plaque...
A major test of the sunshield for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was conducted in July 2014 by Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California. For the first time, the five sunshield test layers were...
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