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Blast Off!

Episode 2 of 6

Documentary series about 20th-century innovations. James May investigates what the Space Race did for all of us who never got a chance to blast off into orbit.

Documentary series about 20th-century innovations. James May investigates what the Space Race did for all of us who never got a chance to blast off into orbit, discovering that the race to the moon began in Chiswick, West London.

James gets to road-test a street-legal version of the lunar buggy, but finds out gravity makes the handling difficult. After taking his own satellite photo from 700km above Earth, he then travels to NASA's launch pad in Florida to see for himself the massive Saturn moon rockets that he once made in kit-form in his bedroom.

30 minutes

Last on

Wed 24 Jun 2009 22:00

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