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Blast Off!

Episode 2 of 6

Documentary series about 20th-century innovations. James May investigates what the Space Race did for all of us who never got a chance to blast off into orbit.

Documentary series about 20th-century innovations. James May investigates what the Space Race did for all of us who never got a chance to blast off into orbit, discovering that the race to the moon began in Chiswick, West London.

James gets to road-test a street-legal version of the lunar buggy, but finds out gravity makes the handling difficult. After taking his own satellite photo from 700km above Earth, he then travels to NASA's launch pad in Florida to see for himself the massive Saturn moon rockets that he once made in kit-form in his bedroom.

30 minutes

Last on

Wed 24 Jun 200922:00
BBC Two except Yorkshire

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PresenterJames May

Broadcasts

  • Tue 10 Jul 200720:30
    BBC Two England, Northern Ireland (Analogue), Northern Ireland & Wales (Analogue) only
  • Wed 11 Jul 200719:30
    BBC Two Scotland
  • Mon 10 Sep 200719:00
    BBC Two except East, Wales & Yorkshire
  • Tue 18 Sep 200703:00
    BBC One
  • Thu 6 Nov 200819:00
    BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue), Northern Ireland & England only
  • Wed 24 Jun 200922:00
    BBC Two except East & Yorkshire