To Boldly Go: A Sideways Look at Space Exploration

Celebrate some of the oddities and strange happenings that have taken place alongside the more momentous events of space exploration.

Find out how the Americans missed the chance to launch the first satellite,and how a Cuban Cow was the unsuspecting victim of a rocket mishap. Discover why the Russians presented the US coastguard with an Apollo capsule and where you could ride the scariest zip-wire in the world.

Sometimes bizarre, often ridiculous and frequently surprising ‘To Boldly Go’ presents twenty tales of what can happen when people set out to go where no one has gone before.