Another Yuri Gagarin episode, I know the anniversary of the world’s first spaceflight is over but there is still lots going on over the next few months. There are two […]

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1969 is remembered for the unique event in history, Apollo 11 and the first men, Neil and Buzz on the surface of the Moon. Before the year was out, another […]

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Scroll down for the audio and video. On a cold, bright Wednesday morning, fifty years ago, in the Soviet town of  Turatam, a rocket launched a man into space. A critical […]

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Scroll down for the audio and video. Reg Turnill joined the BBC in 1956 with the remit to cover aviation and defence. The launch of Sputnik 1 in the following […]

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Scroll down for the options to play audio and video. On the third of Gagarin’s five days in Britain, immediately following his meeting with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, on Thursday, […]

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Scroll to the bottom for the audio and video. Since the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, thousands of unmanned spacecraft have been launched, mostly to Earth orbit, but many […]

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Scroll to the bottom of this post to play the audio or watch the video. Going in to space was nothing more than a dream for many of us for […]

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On November 3rd this year, Professor Jim Al-khalili was to give three lectures in Liverpool on the same day (Quantum Physics, Advances in Mathematics in Medieval Islam and On the […]

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Next year, April 12th  2011, marks the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s,  mankind’s,  first steps into space. It was a product of the accumulated technology of many countries over many years, but […]

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A man playing golf on the moon is one of the images permanently etched into the collective memory of humanity’s first exploration of the moon. The so called “golf player” […]

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