Science stories – Beyond
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Channel: The Royal Society · 2015 · Science & Technology
In the 1950s the Royal Society was instrumental to the inception of the UK space programme. Professor Len Culhane, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Dr Lucie Green, discuss the early space missions that led us moving to explore beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. This film is part of a series of Science stories to celebrate 350 years of scientific publishing by the Royal Society. https://royalsociety.org/publishing350/ Explore further: The Royal Society's formative role in UK space research, Ken Pounds, 2010 - http://bit.ly/2Iv3IMU Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey, 16 May 1908 - 27 November 1983, Sir David Bates, Sir Robert Boyd, D. G. Davis, 1984 - http://bit.ly/2qcbHHG Articles by Harrie Massey - http://bit.ly/2JpoA9x Articles by Robert Boyd - http://bit.ly/2GVbF0L Science and applications of the space environment: new results and interdisciplinary connections’ compiled by A. J. Coates, J. L. Culhane and J. C. R. Hunt, 2003 - http://bit.ly/2EnbKol Articles by J. L. Culhane - http://bit.ly/2qcdqfn History of Philosophical Transactions - http://bit.ly/2HcEzHb Royal Society Journal Collection: Science in the making - http://bit.ly/2IA2qjz Produced by Asta Films for the Royal Society. Archive footage used with permission from ESA/ESRO and BAE Systems. Titles by Red Banana Productions.
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