Space   /     The First Woman on the Moon

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If history had been kinder, aviator Wally Funk might have become the first woman on the Moon. In the early 1960s, she was one of 13 female pilots who passed the same physical tests as the Mercury 7 astronauts. Unfortunately her chance never came and no one has walked on the Moon since 1972, after the cancellation of the Apollo space programme. But today, space agencies and commercial companies around the world are preparing to return to the lunar surface and Wally meets the scientists and entrepreneurs trying to make this a reality.

Subtitle
Wally Funk looks at mankind's return to the Moon and if a woman might actually get there
Duration
2989
Publishing date
2017-11-20 11:32
Link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05nls75
Contributors
  BBC World Service
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Enclosures
http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-low/proto/http/vpid/p05nlr39.mp3
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