Review: The Space Shuttle – A Horizon Guide « Everything Express

BBC4, TV. Last broadcast on Fri, 6 May 2011. 30 years ago, the first space shuttle, Columbia, was launched. It ushered in a new age of space travel; a 'cheap', re-usable space-plane capable of taking heavy payloads and large crews into space on a routine basis. As a child, I found it the most exciting human adventure ever; here was the beginning of the colonisation of space. The tragedies of