Channel 4 - ISS orbit live

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This might be interesting:

A live broadcast featuring a complete orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) is to be aired later this year, Channel 4 has announced.

The show, hosted by Dermot O'Leary, will link live to the astronauts from mission control in Houston as they make a 90-minute circuit of the Earth.

The ISS, which orbits 250 miles above the Earth, will send back High Definition live images of the planet.

Lap of the Planet screens in March as part of a space season.

It will also feature contributions from Professor Stephen Hawking and British astronaut Tim Peake, who is due to join the crew of the ISS next year.

The set of three shows will also give an insight into life on the Space Station from astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Koichi Wakata, from the effects of gravity on daily tasks and how it affects the body.

Dermot O'Leary is best known as the long-standing host of The X Factor

Another episode will look at the work done by mission control to support astronauts on the space station, including a treacherous spacewalk to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

Producers say this will give a realistic view of how trouble in space is tackled, compared to Hollywood movie Gravity, which chronicles disaster high above the Earth.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25680706

[Motokid600]

This + Cosmos 2014 = an awesome year. Can't wait.

[Flymetothemun]

Why do you Brits always get the good programmes? Us Americans only get shallow, dull reality shows and 24/7 news channels that resemble yellow journalism. I'd honestly pay the price of a license fee for streams of the BBC Television channels for however long a license lasts. We have BBC America but it's mainly repeats of Top Gear, Dr. Who, and some other sci-fi programme whose name alludes me. You'll get Dr. Who premiers, Top Gear premieres, and the occasional film but that's about it, you won't get anything that I've seen on the regular BBC TV schedule.

[NovaSilisko]

It's nice to see the whole "Slow TV" thing catching on - you don't NEED constant dramatic things happening to make a program interesting. Shame I'm in the states and can't watch it...