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Interesting Space/Astronomy TV shows

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  • 10-01-2004 9:45pm
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    mike65
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    This for anyone who spots a prog on the box which might be of interest to this forum.

    Tomorrow on National Geographic there a 1 hour showe about a manned MArs mission. Its followed by a new series called Mysterious Universe. Prog 1 is Planets From Hell.

    Rocket Men of Mission 105 is about the ISS and is on
    Tuesday night Jan14th at midnight and Tuesday Jan 20th at 1pm.

    Runaway Universe is on National Geographic at midnight on Thursday night.

    Mike.


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    Dr Pepper
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    Good idea. It's hard to find the decent, interesting shows when there's so much tabloid, trashy $hit!!

    There *WAS* a cool programme on Discovery Wings last night called 'Extreme Machines' (it was listed as something else I think - can't remember) from 11 to midnight.

    Twas about all the different ideas for a lunar base as a platform for deep space travel for humans and some of the new propulsion systems to make inter-stellar travel possible. It also looked at reusable rocket designs. It may be on again soon so keep an eye out..


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    Sparks
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    And then there's always webcasts of NASA TV...

    http://www.chron.com/content/interactive/space/missions/live/livetv.ram


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    mike65
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    National Geographic have a new three parter series about the USSR space programme - RED SPACE.

    SCIENTIFIC DOCUMENTARY: Red Space
    Channel: National Geographic
    Date: Saturday 7th February 2004
    Time: 00:00 to 01:00
    Duration: 1 hour.
    Recently released reports on the Soviet space programme reveal sensational secrets about their part in the space race.
    Countdown to victory - and disaster. Recently released Cold War files portray the Soviet space race programme as a mixture of tragedy, farce, heroism and scientific brilliance.

    Broadcast times as follows -

    Feb 6th Midnight ie Fri night/Sat Morning

    Repeated Friday Feb 13 at 13.00 hrs

    Parts 2 and 3 on same times and days over following 2 weeks

    Mike.


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    albertw
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    Forwarding:

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    Hi all,

    Three TV Progs might be of interest, sorry for short notice on the first
    (Thanks to Peter Miller for the note)

    1. Tonight (Tue), BBC2 7:30 pm: Rough Science
    Earth is regularly bombarded by objects from outer space and in Arizona,
    the renowned Meteor Crater is the result of one such collision. The five
    scientists’ challenge is to work out the size of both the meteor that struck
    America and a lunar crater. Presented by Kate Humble.

    2. Thursday 28 Jan, Horizon, at 9.00pm on BBC2:
    Horizon: Whence we came - "Secrets Of The Star Disc". The "Nebra Disc" is
    changing views on the origins of European civilizatio. This mysterious disc
    is said to be the oldest accurate star chart in existence, dating back to the
    Bronze Age.

    3 Friday, 29 Jan. at 10.40pm on TG4:
    Einstein’s Wife - Mileva Maric’s part in the Theory of Relativity

    Clear Skies,

    Terry Moseley


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    mike65
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    If you have access to BBC4 on digital check out two programmes on tonight.

    DOCUMENTARY: British Space Race
    Channel: BBC 4 (Digital Terrestrial)
    Date: Sunday 21st November 2004
    Time: 21:00 to 21:40 (starting this evening)
    Duration: 40 minutes.
    The story of the unsung pioneers of British space exploration - the rocket engineers, the scientists and the dreamers who never gave up on their vision despite lack of resources.
    (Subtitles)

    and
    SCIENTIFIC DOCUMENTARY: To Mars by A-Bomb
    Channel: BBC 4 (Digital Terrestrial)
    Date: Sunday 21st November 2004
    Time: 21:40 to 22:40 (starting this evening)
    Duration: 1 hour.
    The extraordinary story of a secret American project to build a spacecraft the size of an ocean liner and despatch it to Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
    (Subtitles)

    Mike.


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    netron
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    the "mars by a bomb" project is probably referring to Project Orion

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion


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    backboiler
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    This is a radio programme, not television and it's only of use to those in Dublin.

    Anna Livia FM (103.2 MHz) have a half hour astronomy programme at 20:00 on Tuesdays. I haven't been at a radio at that time in a few weeks and I've only ever caught the last minutes of the programme so can't offer an opinion on whether there's substantial content or even if it's still on. Anyway here's their page.


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