Bangkok--4 May--Image Impact
Program Title: The Universe III: Deep Space Disasters
Channel: HISTORY on TrueVisions A23 and D48
Telecast Date & Time: Monday, May 4, 2009 at 8.00 p.m.
In space travel there is a saying that the first 50 miles and the last 50 miles are the most dangerous. Explore the controlled explosion of launch, the fiery crucible of reentry and everything in between. See how a single spark inside a spacecraft or a micrometeoroid less than an inch wide hitting a space station can turn a routine mission into a lethal nightmare. As the missions become longer, venturing to Mars and beyond, the potential disasters will only become bigger. What would happen if a spacecraft ventured too close to a black hole or was hit by a gamma ray burst?