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How BBC’s Stargazing Live Used Affinio to Build Astronaut Farewell Video
CASE STUDY How BBC’s Stargazing Live Used Affinio to Build Astronaut Farewell VideoBACKGROUND Stargazing Live is an educational television program, focused on as- tronomy, televised in the United Kingdom. First appearing in 2011 on the network BBC Two, the show is now in its sixth season. Each sea- son consists of three episodes that air over the course of three con- secutive nights and cover topics such as solar eclipses, black holes, unknown galaxies, and the moon. In May 2013, the ISS Multilateral Crew Operations Panel announced the assignment of Timothy (Tim) Peake, a British-born European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, for a mission to the International Space Sta- tion in late 2015. The announcement made history as Peake would be the first British ESA astronaut to visit the Int