Now on bbc news, its witness history 7 a look back at one of the highlights of the series. Razia iqbal has five stories from the history of Space Exploration to mark the 50th anniversary of the moon landing in july 1969. Hello, and welcome to a special edition of witness history with me, razia iqbal. To mark the anniversary of the moon landings, i am here at the Science Museum in london to bring you five first person accounts of extraordinary moments in the exploration of space. Coming up, we hearfrom the commander of the mission that took the most famous photograph ever of our planet, we get a moving account of the challenger Space Shuttle disaster, and we find out more about laika, the soviet dog who became the first living creature in space. But we begin injuly 1969, when the world stopped in its tracks to watch the americans put a man on the moon for the first time. A Television Audience in the hundreds of millions held its breath as Neil Armstrong clambered out of apollo 11 and to
Now its time for a look at the weather with sarah keith lucas. Hello. We have got some pretty hot midsummers weather in the cards for you through the coming week. Its not going to be dry everywhere, but the heat and humidity are increasing, so lots of warm sunshine around. Some rain across the north west of the uk, and some wind as well over the next 2a hours or so. Middle of the week sees thundery downpours with all that heat and humidity around. Now, through the rest of this evening and overnight, we have got a bit of rain across Northern Ireland, scotland as well. A few showers possible for north west england into north wales, too. But further south and east, you should stay dry overnight, and temperatures staying in the mid teens. Monday morning starts off on a bit of a grey note, but it will be an improving day, the rain clearing out of Northern Ireland and northern england, but still sitting across the west of scotland, where it could be quite heavy at times. In the developing su
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