PROJECT MERCURY ADVANCES - America's first manned space program finally puts a man in orbit. CAMERA TRACKING - The array of special cameras that follow a spacecraft at launch.,
PROJECT MERCURY BEGINS - The start of NASA & America's first manned space program. MARS EXPRESS - The European Space Agency's Mars Satellite. THE SOYUZ LAUNCH SYSTEM - The gradual evolution of Russia's Soyuz launcher.,
COLD WAR & THE START OF THE SPACE RACE – Cold War rivalry and the acceleration of space exploration. SERVICING HUBBLE - Preparations for Hubble's final servicing mission. CHASING A COMET - Launch and the difficult path to rendezvous.,
This episode looks at the development of new human-rated spacecraft, reusable boosters, laser communications, the Ion Drive and new techniques to refuel satellites in space.,
In this episode of Ultimate Processes Francesca Chiorando goes inside the Vespa factory in Italy - to see how they build their iconic scooters.,
In this episode Francesca Chiorando goes inside the largest tractor factory in the UK to see how they build their newest bespoke tractor.,
Thom Hunt travels to the US to track down Ron White, a man whose mind-blowing memory powers defy belief.,
Thom Hunt heads to Las Vegas to meet Tim Cridland, a sideshow performer who claims to be pain-proof.,
Considers how environmental pressures can lead to terrorism and regional conflict.
Shows the devastating environmental, political, and economic effects of the degradation of the world's grasslands.
Examines how recent trends in globalization and the altering of ecosystems have led to dramatic increases in the spread of infectious diseases.
Looks at the spread of air and water pollution and how contamination in one area can affect people and animals living thousands of miles away.
Rainer Farraq is an Austrian engineer who invented the TrixyFormer: An electric driven, enclosed motorcycle, which can be docked into many different vehicles.,
Matt Oehrlein loves giant robots, so he and his partner Gui Cavalcanti set out to start a firm that builds giant fighting robots, called Megabots.,
Alan Gibbs, founder of Gibbs Amphibians, based in Michigan, Nuneaton, UK, and Auckland, New Zealand pioneers in high-speed amphibious vehicle technologies.,
Terry and Larry test 2 scenes from Mel Gibson's film Payback. Mel's character is in the back of a taxi when 4 bad guys pull up next to him in an SUV, they open fire and Mel uses a bad guy in the cab as a shield.,
Terry and Larry test a famous scene from X-men. They are attempting to see if you can split a bullet with a Katana sword,
Terry and Larry test a scene from Reindeer Games when Ben Affleck and Charlize Theron get trapped under a frozen lake, and they escape by shooting 3 shots with a 12-gauge shot gun underwater to blast a hole in the ice to escape.,
George begins his exploration of the deep with a well-preserved shipwreck in the st.lawrence River, then heads west to dive with undersea explorers Chris Harvey-Clark and Phil Nuyyton, and investigate the newly discovered “Black Smoker” deepsea vents
We break the bounds of earth, and look at the environment of space. We examine the difficulties and challenges of exploring this most challenging environment.