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Stephen Baxter - Voyage: 1980 Apollo N

Stephen Baxter - Voyage

1980 Apollo N

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Stephen Baxter - Voyage, 1980 Apollo N

The first manned mission to Mars hangs on the NERVA nuclear booster test flight.

The first manned mission to Mars hangs on the success of the NERVA nuclear booster test flight. Stars Vincent Marzello.

Natalie York has qualified as an astronaut, but the nuclear booster test is about to change her life for ever...

Stephen Baxter's 1996 novel presents an alternative history of the US space programme. 

Dramatised in five parts by Dirk Maggs 

Starring Laurel Lefklow as Natalie York, William Dufris as Mike Conlig, Michael Roberts as Gregory Dana, Vincent Marzello as Joe Muldoon, Frank Lazarus as Chuck Jones, Russell Bentley as Jim Dana, William Roberts as Ben Priest, Mel Taylor as Ralph Gershon and Rolf Saxon as Phil Stone.

Music by Wilfredo Acosta. 

Producer: Dirk Maggs 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.

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