Episode 2
The 1950s plan to build a nuclear-powered spaceship, Project Orion. Quirky true history with Peter Serafinowicz. From May 2012.
Comic but informative look at the history of space exploration:
The role that leaps of the imagination have played in the science of rocketry, including the strange story of Russian Cosmism, and how their mission to bring back to life everyone who has ever lived produced pioneering work on multi-stage rockets
Plus the even stranger story of a plan in the 1950s for a giant spaceship capable of carrying a hundred and fifty people that could have been built using existing technology - Project Orion. There was just one snag - it was to be fuelled by nuclear bombs.
Starring:
Helen Keen
Peter Serafinowicz
Susy Kane
Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill.
Producer: Gareth Edwards.
First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in May 2012.
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The drawbacks of a nuclear-powered space programme
Duration: 01:28
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Performer | Helen Keen |
| Actor | Peter Serafinowicz |
| Actor | Susy Kane |
| Producer | Gareth Edwards |
| Writer | Helen Keen |
| Writer | Miriam Underhill |
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Wed 23 May 2012 23:00麻豆社 Radio 4- Wed 9 Oct 2013 23:15麻豆社 Radio 4
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