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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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Peter Serafinowicz

Susy Kane

Gareth Edwards

Miriam Underhill

Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science: Series 2: Episode 4

Episode 4

Series 2

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What could we do if a giant asteroid were heading straight for us?

What if there is a giant asteroid strike? Quirky true history with Helen Keen, Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane. From June 2012.

Comic but true look at the past and future of space exploration. 

What could we do if a giant asteroid was heading straight for us? 

A look at where else we might be able to go in the solar system if Earth was destroyed, and how we might get there. 

And we ask the most searching of all questions, why didn't the dinosaurs avoid extinction by developing a space programme of their own? 

And if they had, how could a T Rex have flown a spaceship with those tiny arms?

Last in this series starring:

Helen Keen
Peter Serafinowicz
Susy Kane

Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill.

Producer:  Gareth Edwards 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2012.

Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science: Series 2

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Your digital radio entertainment station showcasing the best in comedy and drama. With recent favourites from BBC Radio 4.

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

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