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1. The First Step to the Stars

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1959 sci-fi adventure from the birth of space exploration. A space station's construction is halted by UFOs. Stars John Carson.

BD Chapman's futuristic sci-fi adventure - first broadcast in 1959.

A bold plan to conquer space begins with prefabricated components of space station 'Orbiter X' being transported up from Earth.

But the task proves perilous.

Shaped like a giant wheel, 'Orbiter X' is designed to circle Earth, travelling in a rapid polar orbit - boasting synthetic gravity, produced by the rotation around the central hub.

First of fourteen parts.

Fact and fiction were curiously interwoven, as a fortnight before the first 麻豆社 broadcast, the Soviet Luna 2 space probe crash landed on the Moon.

Captain Bob Britton 鈥�. John Carson
Captain Douglas McClelland 鈥�. Andrew Crawford
Flight Engineer Hicks 鈥�. Barrie Gosney
Colonel Kent 鈥�. Donald Bisset
Captain Jack Bradley 鈥�. John Witty

Producer: Charles Maxwell.

First broadcast on the 麻豆社 Light Programme in September 1959.

30 minutes

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