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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 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2025
Ep1 - Destination Moon
- Broadcast
- 2025 (59 mins)
Scientists in 2025 detected the ‘strongest hint yet’ of biological activity outside our solar system on exoplanet K2-18b, sparking growing excitement about the real possibility of extraterrestrial life....
The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2026
Ep2 - Searching The Solar System
- Broadcast
- 2025 (59 mins)
In this lecture, Maggie continues her journey, this time in a search for life in the rest of our solar system. From the ancient Greeks’ first observations of ‘planetai’ (wandering stars), she starts by...
The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2027
Ep3 - To the Stars and Beyond
- Broadcast
- 2025 (59 mins)
In her final lecture, Maggie takes her audience beyond our solar system, deep into the Milky Way galaxy, and yet further out into the universe, where the chances of finding life out there, somewhere, seem...
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...