• 2013 • episode “S1E2” • Space Voyages
NASA is sizing up a new but familiar challenge: how to transport humans back into deep space – to the moon, to Mars, to asteroids, and beyond. New destinations require new hardware – more powerful rockets and radical new landing modules. Venture back to our early space adventures with Buzz Aldrin, Jim Lovell and NASA experts and learn about the successes and failures of the Apollo missions. Follow today’s technicians as they reach for the stars by learning from these lessons of the past. The programme also looks at the extreme power created by an SLS rocket during a test at the Stennis Space Centre in Mississippi, along with NASA’s latest multi-purpose crew vehicle
