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Once Upon A Time In Space
Ep1 - America First
- Broadcast
- 2025 (61 mins)
In 1978, Ron McNair, Anna Fisher and Mike Mullane are all selected by NASA to fly aboard the newly unveiled space shuttle. For the first time in the agency’s history, aspiring astronauts of all genders and...
Once Upon A Time In Space
Ep2 - The Russian Thing
- Broadcast
- 2025 (65 mins)
Like many Russians in the early 90s, Sergei Zalyotin is struggling to make ends meet. He moonlights as a taxi driver for extra cash, not unusual in post-communist Russia. What’s unusual is his other job:...
Once Upon A Time In Space
Ep3 - Politics Always Wins
- Broadcast
- 2025 (61 mins)
Ginger Kerrick had dreamed of becoming a Nasa astronaut for as long as she could remember, so she’s over the moon when she’s selected for an interview. But her hopes came crashing down when a routine...
Once Upon A Time In Space
Ep4 - Friends Forever
- Broadcast
- 2025 (62 mins)
Emotions are something that most fighter pilots learn to suppress, but when astronaut and former fighter pilot Terry Virts fits one of the last pieces of the International Space Station, that’s exactly how...
The Planets
Episode 1 - A Moment in the Sun - The Terrestrial Planet
- Broadcast
- 2019 (58 mins)
In this major new landmark series, Professor Brian Cox tells the extraordinary life story of our solar system. For four and a half billion years each of the planets has been on an incredible journey, filled...
The Planets
Episode 2 - The Two Sisters - Earth and Mars
- Broadcast
- 2019 (58 mins)
Early in the story of The Planets, there was a beautiful water world, an oasis of hope in a sterile universe. But this was not Earth - this was the young Mars. Professor Brian Cox continues his tour of the...
The Planets
Episode 3 - The Godfather
- Broadcast
- 2019 (58 mins)
Professor Brian Cox continues his exploration of the solar system with a visit to a planet that dwarfs all the others: Jupiter. Its enormous size gives it a great power that it has used to manipulate the...
The Planets
Episode 4 - Life Beyond the Sun: Saturn
- Broadcast
- 2019 (58 mins)
Saturn is the jewel of the solar system, the most seductive of all the planets, but as Professor Brian Cox reveals - it wasn’t born that way. Raised in the freezing outer reaches of the solar system Saturn...
The Planets
Episode 5 - Into the Darkness: Ice Worlds
- Broadcast
- 2019 (58 mins)
In the final episode of The Planets, Professor Brian Cox journeys to the remotest part of the solar system, a place that the most mysterious planets call home. These worlds remain shadowy for a simple...
8 Days to the Moon and Back
Episode 1
- Broadcast
- 2019 (88 mins)
8 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes, 35 seconds. That’s the total duration of the most important and celebrated space mission ever flown - Apollo 11 - when humans first set foot on the Moon. It was a journey that...