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EOHD 2021: Jack Heslewood and the History of Space

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  • Duration: 9 mins
  • Publication date: 30 Jul 2021
  • Part of series Engineering Open House Day

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Jack Heslewood is a Rocket Scientist as well as our current Mr World and he joined us on our Engineering Open House Day Live show to talk to us about his career within engineering, how he became Mr World, as well as explaining to the history of space and rocket ships.

Where does space start? How many different types of spacecrafts are there? How do we bring things back down from space? Jack is here to answer all of our outer this world questions!

See more clips from our Engineering Open House Day Live show on our media hub: https://www.engineer-a-better-world.org/engineering-open-house-day/

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  • black hole
  • jack heslewood
  • jack heslewood mr world
  • solar system

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