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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Peter Serafinowicz

Susy Kane

Gareth Edwards

Miriam Underhill

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

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Funny, factually-accurate look at space travel and explosive nuclear propulsion.

The 1950s plan to build a nuclear-powered spaceship, Project Orion. Quirky true history with Peter Serafinowicz. From May 2012.

Comic but informative look at the history of space exploration:  

The role that leaps of the imagination have played in the science of rocketry, including the strange story of Russian Cosmism, and how their mission to bring back to life everyone who has ever lived produced pioneering work on multi-stage rockets

Plus the even stranger story of a plan in the 1950s for a giant spaceship capable of carrying a hundred and fifty people that could have been built using existing technology - Project Orion. There was just one snag - it was to be fuelled by nuclear bombs.

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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