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5/1/2011: Today is the last of the hour long “Stargazing Live” programs on BBC2 at 8pm with a comic Dara O Briain and a scientist Professor Brian Cox. But it is not over today! Events continue until at least 16th January nationwide – See bbc.co.uk/stargazing.
Free tonight and in the northwest? Pop down at about 8pm to Manchester Astronomical Society or Salford Astronomical Society’s observatory and stargaze in person (record the program and watch it later).
The veteran BBC aerospace correspondent Reg Turnill recalls some of the key moments that he personally covered during the height of the space race. Reg has recorded his eye witness account in his book The Moonlandings.
Chris Lintott one of the authors of Bang! and a co-presenters on Sky at Night far too young to have experienced the Apollo program personally, looks forward to the next manned mission to the moon. You have probably heard of Galaxy Zoo but did you know Galaxy Zoo 2 is in the pipeline too.
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