The Sky at Night
Season 35 Episode 8 - Soviet Space Astronomy
8.3 ?
1957
Documentary, News
Patrick Moore visits Baikonur, the site from which all the important Soviet space missions have been launched and until recently out of bounds to westerners. He watches the launch of a probe to the orbiting space-station Mir and talks to leading Soviet astronomer Prof Alexander Boyarchuk.
Episodes in Season 35
1
Mars - the Red Planet
2
The Fastest Clocks in the Universe
3
Jupiter and Family
4
Bombardment from Space
5
Wanderers in Space
6
Guarding Their Secrets
7
Saturn the Ringed Planet
8
Soviet Space Astronomy
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The Pole Star
10
Galaxy in Creation?
11
Hubble Space Telescope
12
Nothing But Blue Skies
13
