The Complete Cosmos - Discovery into Deep Space DVD NEW

The Award Winning TV Series

Comprising 4 Episodes:

Man in Space
 Space frontier - human space exploration, from Yuri Gagarin's first orbit of space to the race for the moon and the Apollo landings
High life - living and working in space, triumphs, tragedies and everyday practicalities on the Russian space-station Mir and America's space shuttle
Where next? - the possibility of a spaceport in earth-orbit, the colonisation of the moon and mars, the taming of Venus, plus an elevator into space!

Pioneers
Breakthrough! - from the ancient sky-watchers of Babylon to space-age cosmology, the story of astronomy featuring Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton and Hubble
Earth patrol - launched into earth-orbit, these are the satellites that monitor the health of our planet. Looking at the ozone, the melting ice-caps, weather, deforestation and navigation
Robots - a look at our scouts in the solar system. Probes that trail-blaze on mars, plunge into Jupiter and land on Saturn's moon Titan

Cosmic focus
Hubble's eye - after astronauts fix its faulty optics, the Hubble space telescope peers back through time to the depths of the cosmos
Light fantastic - visible light reveals only part of the universe. We look at how other wavelengths fill out the picture, from gamma-rays to radio
Milky way - our galaxy explored and light years explained. Looking at the life and death of stars, supernovae and the clouds where stars are born

Deep space
Infinity - looking at the structure of the universe, galaxies, clusters, strands and how we measure to a nearby galaxy and to the farthest quasar
Big bang, big crunch - the theory of the big bang explained and how from that cataclysmic explosion the universe continues to expand, but will it stop and reverse?
Black holes, dark matter - although invisible, black holes betray their presence, which is the same with dark matter: the missing 90% of the universe