Historian

The 80-sec­ond clip above cap­tures a rock­et launch, some­factor of which we’ve all seen footage at one time or anoth­er. What makes its view­ers name it “the nice­est shot in tele­vi­sion” nonetheless immediately, 45 years after it first aired, could take multiple view­ing to note. In it, sci­ence his­to­ri­an James Burke speaks about how “cer­tain…