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Awesome Astronomy - June Part 2: The Secret History of a Space Mission
Paul Hill and Dr. Jenifer "Dr. Dust" Millard host.
Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce.
The idea that sparked a billion-dollar space telescope was recorded in the most unlikely of places: a scrap of paper fished out a pocket while gondolas sailed by in Venice. In this talk, award-winning astrophysicist and science communicator Steve Eales of Cardiff University takes us on the unlikely journey of the Herschel Space Observatory, the most sensitive far-infrared space telescope yet launched. This talk was recorded at the recent AstroCamp in Cwmdu, Wales.
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