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Episode 6

Moon on Earth - we look at Mike Collins who was waiting above the moon in Apollo 11 while others collected samples. Magellan - a look at the satellite that was the first to venture out to map the planet of Venus. White sands - we visit a desert in new Mexico where NASA can conduct all their tests for space flights. Skylab - launched in 1972 this satellite had some problems with its meteoric shield and caused frantic panic back on land. Benefits from space - an examination of the advantages that space travel and research has had on advances back on Earth. Glenn blastoff - in 1962 astronaut John Glenn became the first man to head into space and he orbited the Earth in 88 minutes. CFD - computational fluid dynamics is the airflow around an aircraft which is such an important factor of space travel. Challenger - a look at NASA’s rocket that is lighter than Columbia and spent 5 days, 2.2 million miles and 80 orbits while in space.

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