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LOOKING INTO SPACE

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on BBC Home Service Basic

A series of five programmes in which JOHN STOBBS , a journalist with a non-scientific education, asks some eminent scientists and engineers to discuss and explain the tools, techniques, and rewards of space research.
2-Vehides for Space Research
How does a rocket work ... what does ' the speed of escape' mean ... what is mass ratio ... how is a missile steered ... how are its instruments powered?
Speakers
A. V. CLEAVER , Chief engineer (rocket propulsion) Rolls-Royce, Ltd.
D. J. Lyons, Royal Aircraft Establishment.
Farnborough H. G. R. Robinson , Royal Aircraft Establishment. Farnborough
(The recorded broadcast of March 23 in Network Three)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Stobbs
Unknown:
A. V. Cleaver
Unknown:
Farnborough H. G. R. Robinson
Source: Radio Times

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