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ChrisP
post Jul 23 2007, 09:20 AM
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I recently attended a lecture given by Prof John Zarnecki called "Fingers Crossed - 50 Years of Space Exploration".

Sending rockets into space and expecting them to work has always been a dodgy business. The Prof talked about some of his experiences starting with almost meeting Yuri Gagarin and working through his first xray rocket, Hubble FOC, Giotto, Beagle 2 and Huygens etc. Very interesting.

Anyway, the lecture is now available online at the BBC/OU Website.

Cheers,
Chris.
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Toma B
post Jul 24 2007, 07:09 AM
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- ChrisP   Fingers Crossed!   Jul 23 2007, 09:20 AM
- - Toma B   Man!!! This guy is absolutely great...   Jul 23 2007, 12:45 PM
- - djellison   John's a hoot - I was fortunate enough to see ...   Jul 23 2007, 03:58 PM
- - lyford   Here are the direct links to the flash video files...   Jul 23 2007, 04:48 PM
- - stewjack   Full Audio Fingers Crossed: 50 years of space exp...   Jul 23 2007, 05:19 PM
- - DEChengst   Converted to DivX and glued together: http://para...   Jul 23 2007, 09:17 PM
- - Toma B   Downloaded! Thanks! This place (UMSF) is s...   Jul 24 2007, 07:09 AM

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