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101) Extreme Solar System
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Emily Calandrelli explores the most inhospitable and extreme places in our own solar system.
103) Highlights of Apollo
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Emily Calandrelli uncovers the highlights of the historic Apollo missions.
105) Astronaut Health
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Emily Calandrelli trains and eats like an astronaut & learns about the dangers astronauts encounter.
107) Satellites Eye View
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Satellites help us understand our world and the universe.
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2001: A Space Odyssey introduced a lot of people to the idea of rotation based artificial gravity, but in sci-fi, it's far from the only one to implement the idea! Babylon 5, Halo, and Ringworld also used rotation-based artificial gravity in their stores, but, being an astrophysicist I had to ask, WHO DOES IT BEST? And more importantly, is artificial gravity in space possible?
109) Solving Mars
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Emily Calandrelli examines the obstacles we need to overcome to put the first human on Mars.
110) Men on the Moon
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Emily Calandrelli uncovers the moment the historic Apollo program changed our world forever.
111) Unique Space Jobs
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Emily Calandrelli explores the most unique jobs in the space industry.
112) Stories From Space
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Four astronauts who have gone on missions into outer space share their perspective of life in space.
113) Teaming Up With NASA
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Many private companies are working with NASA to make space exploration more efficient.
116) Engineering In Space
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To send rockets to outer space, it requires all types of engineers.
117) NASA Spinoffs
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Emily discovers the products by the NASA space program that have made everyday life better on Earth.
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"On June 6, 1761, the world paused to observe a momentous occasion: the first transit of Venus between the Earth and the sun in more than a century. Through that observation, astronomers could calculate the size of the solar system--but only if the transit could be viewed at the same time from many locations. Overcoming incredible odds and political strife, astronomers from Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Sweden, and the American colonies set up...
119) Cosmic Apocalypse
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The universe as we know it will eventually die. This program theorizes on the end of space, matter, and even time as it outlines the harsh and hostile possibilities of the far distant future.
120) My brief history
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The physicist explores his life and intellectual evolution.