Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections - Season 3 Episode 5 Space Shuttle
Richard Hammond reveals the engineering connections in NASA's Space Shuttle - the world's first re-usable space craft. He goes backstage at Kennedy Space Centre, in Florida, to discover how an organ pump, tram tracks, a WWII anti-sonar device, a camera iris and a cannonball all helped create the most technologically advanced machine ever engineered by man. Conceived in the early 1970's as the successor to the Apollo Moon missions, the Shuttle is a delivery system, designed to transport payloads such as the Hubble Telescope, and most of the International Space Station, into orbit, and return for its next cargo. The delivery van is the Orbiter - what most people call the Shuttle - which is mated with a huge external fuel tank and rocket boosters which are all jettisoned. Surviving the huge destructive forces of traveling to space and returning in usable form called for ingenious engineering compromises.
Year: 2011
Genre: Documentary
Country: United Kingdom
Studio: National Geographic Channel, BBC Two
Director: Richard Hammond
Cast: Richard Hammond
Crew: Kenny Scott (Director), Rob Goldie (Director of Photography), Peter Allibone (Director of Photography)
First Air Date: Sep 08, 2008
Last Air date: Jun 12, 2011
Season: 3 Season
Episode: 16 Episode
Runtime: 30 minutes
IMDb: 6.00/10 by 3.00 users
Popularity: 13.9529
Language: English
Keyword : engineering
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