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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 2: Episode 3

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The women US astronauts of Mercury 13, who never got into space.

The women astronauts-who-never-were of the Mercury 13. Quirky true history with Helen Keen and Peter Serafnowicz. From May 2012.

Comic but true history of space exploration:

Given that on a rocket every ounce of saved weight is crucial, an astronaut who weighs 15% less and breathes less oxygen should have a tremendous advantage. So where were all of NASA's female astronauts? 

The story of Soviet pioneer Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, who at one time logged more hours in orbit than all the male American astronauts put together makes a thought-provoking contrast to the marginalised female astronauts of the USA, the so called Mercury 13, none of whom ever got to go into space.

Starring:

Helen Keen
Peter Serafinowicz
Susy Kane

Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill.

Producer: Gareth Edwards

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2012.

Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science: Series 2

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

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