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Horizon: From Peenemunde to the Moon

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on BBC Two England

A review of the sciences.
Christopher Chataway introduces
From Peenemunde to the Moon

If U.S. hopes are fulfilled the tremendous power of the Saturn IB rocket motor should, within a few weeks, lift a three-man spacecraft to orbit the earth.
Wernher von Braun, the German V2 rocket engineer who played a critical part in the development of U.S. rocketry, appears in a report on 700 years of rocket science and its attempt to realise a space travel dream.
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Contributors

Presenter:
Christopher Chataway
Producer:
Peter R. Smith
Editor:
R.W. Reid
Source: Radio Times

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