The suspicious death of Rear Admiral Durović
As Yugoslavia began to break down, the Balkans conflict began - a series of brutal wars characterised by disputes over territory, identity, and ethnic divisions. In 1991, the Croatian War of Independe...
26 Mar 20259min
Goodluck Jonathan’s phone call that changed Nigeria
In 2015 Goodluck Jonathan became the first Nigerian president to concede election defeat. It allowed the transfer of power to the opposition party in Africa's biggest democracy - a country that had hi...
25 Mar 202510min
The Germanwings plane crash
When General David Galtier hovered above the French Alps in a helicopter on 24 March 2015 he could not see the 60-tonne plane he was looking for. Instead he saw thousands and thousands of little piece...
24 Mar 202510min
The visionary behind the European Space Agency
In October 2012, the founding father of the European Space Agency was honoured when a spacecraft named after him was sent to the international space station. Within the probe – called the Edoardo Amal...
21 Mar 202510min
The historic handshake in space
In July 1975, former competitors the Soviet Union and the United States both launched rockets into the sky within hours of each other, as part of a joint project. They wanted two spacecraft, from two ...
20 Mar 202510min
In event of moon disaster: 'The speech that never was'
“Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.”These are the opening lines of the 'In Event of Moon Disaster' speech, written in 1969 ...
19 Mar 202511min
First spacewalk
On 18 March 1965, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to spacewalk.He spent around 10 minutes floating above the Earth, tethered to the spaceship by a 5-metre “umbilical cord”.Recalling th...
18 Mar 202510min
The rocket that revived Brazil’s space programme
In 2003, 21 people died when a space rocket exploded at Brazil’s Alcantara Launch Centre, three days before its planned flight. It was the country’s third – and most serious - rocket failure in six ...
17 Mar 20259min
