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Documentaries- The Right Stuff
TV & Satellite Week
|August 19,2017
Budding astronauts are put through their paces by a famous space commander
Becoming an astronaut is a dream job for many, but how hard is it to make the grade? In BBC2’s reality show Astronauts: Do You Have What It Takes? 12 members of the public get to see if they could cope with life in space as they undergo intense astronaut training using standards set by world space agencies.
This story is from the August 19,2017 edition of TV & Satellite Week.
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