The Sky at Night · SEASON 15
Orbiting Space-Stations
Episode 6 · 1971-06-08
- Documentary
- News
Episode overview
The Russian Soyuz flights and America's planned launching of a manned Skylab in 1973 are steps towards the establishment by the 1980s of permanent observatories outside earth's atmosphere. As well as making observations of the sun, a purpose of the first Skylab is to solve the problem of enabling crews to work efficiently during long periods of weightlessness. Patrick Moore discusses this problem With Wing Cmdr. Tony Nicholson and explains how such observatories will help astronomers to see further into outer space.
Season 15 episodes
1. The Approach of Mars1970-01-13
2. Things are Seldom What They Seem1971-02-03
3. Sirius, the Dog-Star1970-03-03
4. A Black Hole in Space?1971-04-01
5. Jupiter - the Other Magnetic Planet1971-04-27
6. Orbiting Space-Stations1971-06-08
7. Tracking the Stars1971-06-30
8. How Far Are the Stars?1971-07-21
9. Mars Comes Close1971-08-18
10. The Life and Death of a Star1971-09-15
11. Kepler, Genius and Mystic1971-10-13
12. Mars1971-11-17
13. The Royal Observatory Telescope1971-12-07
