The Sky at Night
Season 13 Episode 12 - The Grand Tour
8.3 ?
1957
Documentary, News
In the late 1970s a spacecraft may be sent on a 'tour' of four of the outer planets - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune - using the gravity and orbital speed of each to boost it on to the next, and sending back photographs and scientific information. Patrick Moore discusses the chances of success for this ambitious project with Iain Nicolson, a British astronomer, and with Dr W.H. Pickering, head of America's unmanned scientific space programme.
Episodes in Season 13
1
The Moon - A New Era
2
How Much Can You See?
3
Jupiter, the Giant Planet
4
The Moon and the Earth
5
Mars Target Two
6
When Venus Crosses the Sun
7
The Needles of Space
8
The Weather of Mars
9
Relativity
10
Stars that Come and Go
11
The Moons of Saturn
12
The Grand Tour
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