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OU on the BBC: James May's 20th Century - Blast Off

OU on the BBC: James May's 20th Century - Blast Off Copyrighted imageCredit: Production team
Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 03 Jul 2007
By The OpenLearn team
Like many small boys James May dreamt of becoming an astronaut. Even though he may not have realised his dream he sets off to find...
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Fighting for space: Transcript

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Introductory Level Duration 30 mins Updated 08 May 2007
By The Learning Zone Digital Planet team
Are the radio waves becoming so overcrowded as to make us deaf to voices from elsewhere? Find out in this full transcript of Digital Planet.
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The other space race: Transcript

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Introductory Level Duration 30 mins Updated 02 Jun 2005
By Michael Portillo, Yuri Karash, Professor Ian Morison, Slava Gerovitch, David M Harland, David Scott, Jim Lovell
For The Things We Forgot To Remember, Michael Portillo asks if the Space Race was won and lost long before Neil Armstrong took his small...
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OU on the BBC: The Things We Forgot To Remember - The Space Race

OU on the BBC: The Things We Forgot To Remember - The Space Race Copyrighted imageCredit: Used with permission
Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 13 May 2005
By The OpenLearn team
We ask whether Apollo 8 was more significant than Apollo 11 in establishing American dominance in space, as part of the BBC/OU series 'The Things...
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Landing On The Planets

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Introductory Level Duration 10 mins Updated 25 Dec 2004
By Professor David Hughes
Professor David W Hughes offers a brief history of sending spacecraft to land on the planets in our solar system
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Are Manned Missions Worth It?

Are Manned Missions Worth It? Copyrighted imageCredit: NASA/JSL
Introductory Level Duration 10 mins Updated 25 Dec 2004
By Professor David Hughes
Professor David W Hughes compares the benefits of sending probes to explore the solar system against the value that manned missions could offer
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