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Is anyone else looking forward to watching this on Channel 4 next week? I think it will be very interesting, especially the last programme which will be 2 and a half hours of live coverage from the ISS. I'm going to Houston in November and plan to go to the Johnson Space Centre so it will be interesting to see what goes on behind the scenes.
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http://natgeotv.com/uk/cosmos-a-spacetime-odyssey
Astronaut who filmed it happened to be friends with one of the pilots.
Apparently the footage in its entirety has never been shown before....includes commentary from astronaut Frank Culbertson who plays a bugle call in honour of his friend
Looking forward to this very much.
I hope it's better than Gravity. (Well it couldn't be worse than Gravity as that's impossible)
ASTRONAUTS: LIVING IN SPACE
Wed 12 March, 9pm, Channel 4
Here for the first time, filmed by themselves and in their own words, is the incredible story of three astronauts, Rick Mastracchio, Koichi Wakata, and Mike Hopkins. This film follows their out-of-this-world experiences of living in space, from eating, sleeping and science experiments to the consequences of a broken valve which could threaten their very presence on the International Space Station.
Astronauts: Houston We Have a Problem
ASTRONAUTS: HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM
Thur 13 March, 9pm, Channel 4
Featuring specially-shot behind-the-scenes footage of the work of NASA's Mission Control in Houston, combined with unseen images from spacewalks and candid first-hand testimony, we show what happens when missions go wrong and how the ground team respond to keep the astronauts safe in space.
LIVE FROM SPACE: LAP OF THE PLANET
Sun 16 March, 730pm, Channel 4
Broadcasting live from the Johnson Space Centre, Houston, Texas, the show, presented by Dermot O'Leary, will feature amazing shots of the Earth from the International Space Station as it performs an entire circuit of the globe over 90 minutes as well as revealing the extraordinary science experiments conducted by the astronauts of Expedition 38.
Many years ago I went to Florida, saw a space shuttle launch and did a tour of the Kennedy space center.
Fantastic time, they had a mock up of the Apollo control room and you watch it come to life as they go through a mock Apollo launch.
You are joking? Can't they find a scientist or astronaut to present it? Channel 4 really are full of arty farty types.
I always wanted to see a shuttle take off but never got round to it, the chaplain at the boarding school that I was at happened to be visiting Disney World on the day Challenger exploded and saw it happen which cannot have been very nice to witness.
I agree there's nothing wrong with him, surprised they didn't get someone with a bit of knowledge on the subject though, Piers Sellers maybe?
Mainly because he is a crap presenter, and will belittle the seriousness of the programme.
Lucky.... so and so.... my other half organised a trip to Florida to see a Shuttle launch for my 40th. The week before we left the launch was postponed.. it would have cost almost as much as the holiday to rearrange, so we went anyway: and the launch was held for two months in any event. We did KSC... twice.. The second time they had the "lunch with an astronaut", where there would be an interview in the cafeteria. When I was there, it was Jean-Loup Chretien*, and it was clear that nobody in the crowd had a clue who he was... Got a handshake and an autograph!
No particular hate for Dermot O'Leary here - but agree that they could surely have come up with someone more directly appropriate. We're not exactly short of TV astronomers at the moment...
*French astronaut; first Western European in space; first man to go to the Soviet space station Salyut and fly in the Shuttle.
Grinning like I've lost the plot.
Russians, keeping to themselves.
Interesting, but not unexpected.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-iss-stream
Anyway, they should have a garden and grow plants, for food and oxygen, if they are ever to build a moon-base or mission to Mars.
Yes and then send it out into space and then change their minds and blow it all up killing Huey and Dewey for no good reason! >:(
;-)