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- Biography of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.
- Gardening Confidential takes a behind-the-scenes look at how this most ancient of hobbies has turned into a high-tech obsession where you don't even have to get your hands dirty anymore.
- With multinational input, the ISS is currently the largest single structure humans have put into space. Constructed between1998 and 2011, and continuously occupied since November 2000, it now weighs 391 tonnes. The first module, the Russia Zarya, was launched by a Proton rocket 20 Nov 1998. Two weeks later, STS 88, a space shuttle flight, added the NASA Unity, or Node 1 module. Astronauts from STS 88 then connected the two parts of the station together. The truss, solar panels and airlocks were launched in stages throughout the ISS lifetime and in 2017 new docking adapters were added for future commercial spacecraft arrivals. Current plans are to operate to 2024 and maybe 2028.
- A one-on-one with retired Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield on Canada's role in return to the moon.
- Brian Cox and Dara O Briain host the second night of their three-day stargazing extravaganza from Jodrell Bank Observatory, where they are joined by two generations of astronauts. Walt Cunningham was one of the first ever crew to fly an Apollo spacecraft into orbit, while Commander Chris Hadfield recently returned from months aboard the International Space Station.
- Two of the Astronaut Candidates of the Twelve Astronaut Candidates fail.
- Two More Astronaut Candidates of the remaining Ten Astronaut Candidates Fail the Astronaut Selection Process, Four of the Twelve Astronaut Candidates are gone.
- The candidates must complete swim tests - swimming lengths in their flight suit and working as a team to assemble a weighted cube underwater. They then take a spin in a rotating chair and simulate manually docking a spacecraft at the ISS.
- The testing steps up a gear as the remaining candidates head off to a secret facility in Sweden. They are deliberately deprived of oxygen to see if they recognise the symptoms of hypoxia and they are tested in a human centrifuge.
- Leadership skills are tested in a survival challenge. The panel are joined by two experts to conduct probing interviews. The remaining candidates head off to the Kennedy Space Centre competing for a place in the final.
- The finalists head to the Shuttle Landing Facility on Florida's Space Coast to consider the risks of the job. They experience weightlessness at 30,000 ft and dive down to an underwater facility.
- Chris Hadfield's mission and his determination to make people love space again.
- The Campuses enter their home for the first time this decade to find the décor is all glass, brass and lacquer to reflect the new prosperity and openness of the era, that prosperity especially by who will be coined yuppies, the more affluent of the baby boomers. For the first time in the experiment, Tristan is banished from the kitchen in the preparation of the first meal, it, iconic to females of the time, which will ironically be prepared by the males. Men in the kitchen does not mean that the women's domestic duties were usurped. The new sense of adventure, which extended to cooking gourmet at home with more and more kitchen gadgets and people getting new ideas from cooking classes, was balanced by a new health trend as baby boomers were approaching the middle age bulge, that health both in diet and exercise. The former includes meatless meals with the use of non-animal protein ingredients such as tofu. The latter saw the onset of aerobics for women, and pumping iron for men, both while adorned in spandex. The mid-80s saw the rise of Japanese food, the California roll the gateway to the more adventurous raw fish sushi. What arguably changed the family dynamic was the introduction of the tech gadgets of the home video game console, hand held electronic games, and the videocassette recorder (VCR), which revolutionized the way people watched television. The late-80s saw another revolutionary kitchen appliance hit the market, the microwave oven which led to complete meals being cooked in such. Cultural novelties include Trivial Pursuit, friendship pins (the equivalent today of friending someone on Facebook), the pogo ball, and painting à la Bob Ross style. A style icon, especially for girls Valerie and Jessica's age, was Madonna, with big curly hair and bangs, and overtly sexualized feminine items mixed with overtly masculine items. The Campuses last meal of the decade is something with which they are more familiar in present day: the home delivered meal, specifically of the Canadian invention of the Hawaiian pizza.
- An investigation into resort cover-ups; a Canadian astronaut prepares to go to the International Space Station.
- Dr. David Suzuki meets with scientists who are unraveling the mysteries of the northern lights.