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  1. Stuart Sharrock on Voyager space mission (1977)

    Genre
    Interview

    Dr Stuart Sharrock of the journal Nature, on the physical makeup of Saturn and Jupiter. He comments on NASA’s plan to send recordings (greetings, music and natural sounds) up with spacecraft Voyager 1 and...

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  2. Bill Becker on Voyager space mission (1977)

    Genre
    Interview

    Bill Becker of Jet Lab (Jet Propulsion Laboratory?), on the problems experienced by Voyager 2 and the delay of the Voyager 1 launch. Voyager 2 is however now on course for Jupiter and will soon lock up on...

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  3. Voyager spacecraft tape (1977)

    Genre
    News report

    Report by Norman Beebe on the tape attached to (one of?) NASA’s Voyager spacecraft. Tape contents include a recording of the Chuck Berry song, Johnny B. Goode.

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  4. Russian space mission (1977)

    Genre
    News report; Special

    Chris Catlin(?) reports on the docking of a Soviet shuttle with the Soviet space station. One of the docking ports is faulty, and cosmonauts will try to identify the problem. Includes Russian commentary.

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  5. Soviet space mission returns to Earth (1977)

    Genre
    News report

    Chris Catlin(?) reports on the return to Earth of Russian spaceship Soyuz 24 that linked up with the space station Salyut 5 in a successful mission.

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  6. Asteroid discovered between Saturn and Uranus (1977)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with astronomer Ian Ridpath on the discovery of a new massive asteroid between Saturn and Uranus. Male interviewer not identified (poss. Vivian White).

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  7. Russians launch space station (1978)

    Genre
    Interview

    The Soviet Union is planning to put a permanently manned space station in orbit around the Earth. The Russian Cosmonauts will aim to stay in space for three weeks, which will beat the American’s record of...

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  8. Soviets to launch history-making space station (1978)

    Genre
    News report

    Chris Catlin(?) reports on the Soviet space mission in which the orbiting station will link with Soviet spacecraft Salyut 6 and Soyuz 27. The docking station was damaged in a previous mission, but has since...

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  9. The space race (1978)

    Genre
    News report; Press conference

    Norman Beebe reports on the space race, which the United States entered 20 years ago today with the launch of its first satellite into orbit. Recently, the Soviets’ Cosmos 954 was powered by a nuclear...

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  10. Soviet satellite crash (1978)

    Genre
    News report; Press conference

    Report on the crash of the Soviets’ Cosmos 954 satellite near Great Slave Lake, Canada (24/01/78). Despite US early assurances that there had been no nuclear matter on board, it was subsequently admitted...

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