COSMONAUTS: Birth of the Space Age
\nVix Southgate took a wander down to the Science Museum to check out the new exhibition of Soviet space hardware and came back more than a little impressed with what she found.<\/p>\n
Tereshkova\u2019s unseen sister
\nTony Quine has a habit of rooting out previously untold stories about Soviet and Russian space affairs. He has been at it again and shares the fascinating story behind the woman selected to carry out physiological research prior to Valentina Tereshkova\u2019s historic flight.<\/p>\n
Aiming High
\nChris McIntosh, CEO of ViaSat UK shares his thoughts about Britain and the space programme and comes out with a very positive view and a few recommendations of his own in this exclusive feature.<\/p>\n
Countdown to Principia
\nNick Spall caught up with Tim Peake as he nears his historic mission to the International Space Station, Britain\u2019s second astronaut and its first flying as a representative of the European Space Agency.<\/p>\n
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\nSpaceflight<\/em> takes a look behind the scenes of the latest space film, hailed by NASA as a great inspiration for the effort to get humans to the Red Planet, and finds out what it takes a make a big screen movie of this kind.<\/p>\n
\nIt was just one place they came to learn geology before going to the Moon but Apollo astronauts have a special regard for the hospitality and sheer ruggedness of this island in the Atlantic Ocean, as Ken MacTaggart reports.<\/p>\n
\nDerek Webber has a plan to get humans off-planet and living in secure settlements in space and defines the way to do that through a series of incremental steps.<\/p>\n