Applicants to be first British astronaut
- Title
- Applicants to be first British astronaut
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 13 Jul 1989
- Year of production
- 1989
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- Duration
- 00:02:00
- Description
- James Matthews reports on the applications received to be the first Briton in space on a joint UK-USSR mission to Mir space station. Includes Wendy Hamilton, Recruitment consultant on some of the unsuitable applicants; Yuri Ramanenko, Russian cosmonaut on personality required.
- Contributors
- James Matthews; Wendy Hamilton; Yuri Ramanenko
- Keywords
- UK; Space exploration; Space stations; Astronauts; Juno; Mir
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LBC/IRN, "Applicants to be first British astronaut". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0007700457007 (Accessed 31 Aug 2025)