It Is Rocket Science

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Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science

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A comic but scientifically-accurate look at the science and history of space exploration.

Series that takes a comic but scientifically-accurate look at the science and history of space exploration. With Helen Keen, Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane

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Helen Keen

Peter Serafinowicz

Susy Kane

Gareth Edwards

Miriam Underhill

Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science: Series 1: Episode 4

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Can we make it to the stars? Quirky true history with Helen Keen and Peter Serafinowicz.

Can we make it to the stars? Are aliens here? Quirky true history with Helen Keen and Peter Serafinowicz. From March 2011.

Funny, off-beat but true account of the history of space flight.

*    Will humanity will ever make it to the stars? 

*    Time travel, parallel universes and faster than light travel.

*    Have aliens ever made it here? If so, were they tempted to use their vastly superior intelligence to really clean up in pub quizzes? 

Starring:

Helen Keen
Peter Serafinowicz
Susy Kane

Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill.

Producer: Gareth Edwards

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2011.

Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science: Series 1

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Funny and off-beat, but factually accurate, account of the science of rockets

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