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Hello, I'm Brian Cox.
I'm Robin Ince, and we're back for a new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage.
We have our 201st extravaganza,
where we're going to talk about how animals emote when around trains and tunnels,
or something like that, I'm not entirely sure.
We're doing one on potatoes.
Of course we're doing one on potatoes, you love potatoes.
I know, but...
Yeah, you love chips, you love mash.
I'll only enjoy it if it's got curry sauce on it.
We've also got techno fossils, moths versus butterflies, and a history of light.
Listen on BBC.com, or wherever you get your podcast.
12th April 1981.
Cape Canaveral, Florida.
A radically new spacecraft sits on the launch pad.
Unlike anything that had ever flown in space.
Every single system, every piece of instrumentation, all of it.
It was the first time anybody had ever seen Any of them.
Two astronauts wait to be launched into space.