The Sky at Night
Season 15 Episode 6 - Orbiting Space-Stations
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Documentary, News
The Russian Soyuz flights and America's planned launching of a manned Skylab in 1973 are steps towards the establishment by the 1980s of permanent observatories outside earth's atmosphere. As well as making observations of the sun, a purpose of the first Skylab is to solve the problem of enabling crews to work efficiently during long periods of weightlessness. Patrick Moore discusses this problem With Wing Cmdr. Tony Nicholson and explains how such observatories will help astronomers to see further into outer space.
Episodes in Season 15
1
The Approach of Mars
2
Things are Seldom What They Seem
3
Sirius, the Dog-Star
4
A Black Hole in Space?
5
Jupiter - the Other Magnetic Planet
6
Orbiting Space-Stations
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Tracking the Stars
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How Far Are the Stars?
9
Mars Comes Close
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The Life and Death of a Star
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Kepler, Genius and Mystic
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Mars
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