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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...
Looks at the way chemistry can play a helpful role in some very different aspects of survival: in India the recycling of equipment enables students to use what would otherwise be prohibitively expensive...
Six programmes exploring the limits of human achievement in the field of engineering, focusing on international engineers working on the toughest assignments of their careers. Asks how can we extend physical...
An account of mankind’s journey into space, covering the people, the mission, the technology and the politics of space exploration up to June 1995. With film footage, audio commentary, photographs and...
On 13 December 1993, the space shuttle Endeavour returned to earth with the team of astronauts whose mission was to repair the Hubble space telescope. Had their mission failed, it could have broken both the...
In-depth view of a space shuttle mission. Reveals how the shuttle Discovery is launched, how it is manoeuvred in orbit, the sophisticated systems that keep the onboard astronauts alive, how and where they...
Space technology is responsible for a range of products including Teflon, flexible heat shields, robotic tools, communication systems, and a telescope used also as a medical research tool for the study of...
Space shuttle mission STS-59, and it experiment SRL-1, the first flight of the Space Radar Laboratory. To study the earth’s surface with this instrument package, ‘Endeavour’ was required to make more...
The STS-61 mission of the space shuttle ‘Endeavour’ launched on 2 December 1993. This 11-day flight was to include the repair of the faulty Hubble Space Telescope. Major elements included changing the...
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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