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The Race to the Moon
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took man’s first steps on the moon. Roughly one billion awestruck people watched the lunar landing on television, but very few realized how close it came to disaster. THE [...]
It Came From Outer Space
From the outer limits of the universe, some technologies have found their way back to Earth with surprising and indispensable commercial applications. In this illuminating program, MODERN MARVELS® explores how high-level NASA breakthroughs, originally developed [...]
Engineering Disasters
From the Colossus of Rhodes and Egypt’s pyramids to the Hoover Dam and the Space Shuttle, mankind has celebrated the work of engineers. But what happens when their calculations prove wrong? From Hammurabi, who passed [...]
