One of the first engineers to work on Spacelab Alan Thirkettle talks hosts Ally and Stephen through the unexpected challenges and memorable moments of building a science laboratory for space.
This unique European-built research facility flew inside NASA's Space Shuttle. It enabled the first flight of a non-American astronaut on a NASA spacecraft in 1983. It also paved the way for ESA's current laboratory on the International Space Station and the future of research in space.
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Spacelab - a new direction
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ESA Explores: the Space Station and Mars
ESA Explores: getting an experiment to orbit
ESA Explores: the early days of Space Station science
ESA Explores: research in space
ESA Explores: becoming an astronaut
ESA Explores: space careers
Time and Space: launching Columbus to orbit
Time and Space: entering the ISS era
ESA Explores: agency heads look forward to the Moon
Time and space: ESA's first astronaut
Time and Space: the first Europeans in orbit
AstroChat - training for the Space Station
ESA Explores – ESA missions return to science
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Beyond Series – Looking beyond Beyond E09
Beyond Series – Back to Earth E08
Beyond Series – Space celebrations E07
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