40 Years in Space

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The South's Spaceman

A 37-year-old test pilot from Chichester has been accepted into the ESA's Astronaut Corps.

• Archive: 1969, Year of Space
• Archive: A Night to Remember
• Features

Forty years after Neil Armstrong took his historic one small step, we look back at the Apollo moon landings and examine the south's giant leap into the modern space industry.

Where were you? - your stories

Where were you in 1969 and did the historic events have a particular significance for you?

Satellites from Surrey

A spin-off from the University of Surrey has grown into a leading producer of small satellites.

"Major Tim" joins space panel

An expert panel will lay out the challenges and opportunities facing the British space industry

Oxfordshire's 10bn space vision

The European Space Agency (Esa) is to open a research centre at Harwell in Oxfordshire.

Rocket men of the Isle of Wight

Highdown was an important site for rocket development and space research in the 1970s

Archive: 1969, Year of Space

In this film from 1969, Patrick Moore looks back at the tremendous achievements of the year.

Archive: A Night to Remember

In this compilation of archive film, Patrick Moore presents the story of the moonlandings.

"Moon mosaic" completed

A group of astronomers has produced a record-breaking ground-based mosaic of the moon.

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