Episode
How Do They Do It?: Fastest Superyachts, Space Suit, Katsuabushi
Overview
How does a Dutch company make the world's fastest superyachts? And, how do they make a new space suit that weighs and costs the fifth of the previous design?
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 15
- Episode
- Episode 9
- Air date
- 2017-11-29
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Fastest Superyachts, Space Suit, Katsuabushi is Episode 9 in Season 15 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2017-11-29. The runtime is 22 min.
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