

Abandoned Engineering
Ambitious engineering projects that have been left in ruins.
These are some of the most spectacular examples of abandoned engineering the world has ever known. The series explores how and why they were built, consider the financial and social costs of their failure and examine the environmental and ecological impacts. The series also explores how experts came up with plans to make something beautiful or useful from the ruins.
- First aired
- Feb 18, 2017
- Status
- Returning Series
- Network
- U&Yesterday
- Episodes
- 145
- Country
- GB
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S1 E2: Mission: Space
S1 E2 Mission: Space
Feb 25, 2017We aim for the stars and find out why unwanted battleship guns allow the United States to gain vital information about the borders of space. We ask how the shattered remains of a secret Nazi base became the first on the path to a new world, with the development of the ground-breaking V2 rocket. We explore a forgotten structure deep in the Arizona desert to ask if it is the true home of America's space programme. And we reveal the bizarre link between a discarded oil drum and a Cold War struggle to survive in zero gravity.
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