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Discovery/Whither?
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Discovery - History Of Astronomy
The history of astronomy. From the Babylonians and ancient Chinese, the first astronomers, to the Egyptians, who created our calendar of 365 days, and the Greeks who discovered Earth is round. Copernicus, in the 16th century, worked out that the planets orbit the Sun. Galileo first used a telescope on the sky. Isaac Newton improved it - and described the effects of gravity. In the 20th century, Edwin Hubble revealed an ever-expanding Universe - into which today we peer ever deeper
Whither - Man On The Moon, Next Stop Mars
The story of manned spaceflight. With the German Werner von Braun launching American rocketry and Sergei Korolev masterminding the Soviet space programme, the Russians put the first cosmonaut in space and the Americans the first astronaut on the Moon. Then came America’s Space Shuttle and the development of orbiting space stations, largely by the Russians. Today, with the International Space Station proving troublesome, a look at future space travel to the Moon, Mars and beyond