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Blast Off!
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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.
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Wed 24 Jun 2009
22:00
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Presenter | James May |
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- Tue 10 Jul 2007 20:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two England, Northern Ireland (Analogue), Northern Ireland & Wales (Analogue) only
- Wed 11 Jul 2007 19:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two Scotland
- Mon 10 Sep 2007 19:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two except East, Wales & Yorkshire
- Tue 18 Sep 2007 03:00
- Thu 6 Nov 2008 19:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two Northern Ireland (Analogue), Northern Ireland & England only
- Wed 24 Jun 2009 22:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two except East & Yorkshire