Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections - Season 3 - Eps 5: Space Shuttle

2011-06-05? min⭐ 6/10

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.

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Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections

Title: Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections

First Air Date: 2008-09-08

Last Air Date: 2011-06-12

Status: Ended

Rating: 6/10 (from 3 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 3

Total Episodes: 16

Network: National Geographic Channel BBC Two

Genres: Documentary

Production Companies: Unknown

Synopsis

Richard Hammond looks at the connections behind the greatest feats of engineering.

Cast

Richard Hammond

Richard Hammond

Himself - Presenter

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