Episode
How Do They Do It?: Communicate With Spacecraft, Maintain Supertankers
Overview
How do they talk to spacecraft in orbit; how do they keep the world's biggest ships in tip-top condition; and how can they lengthen luxury limos and still provide a...
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 2009-08-06
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Communicate With Spacecraft, Maintain Supertankers is Episode 5 in Season 6 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2009-08-06. The runtime is 22 min.
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