Watch Professor Brian Cox on his latest BBC TV programme

05 Sep 2017

The 21st Century Race for Space starts tonight (Tuesday) on BBC2 from 9pm

Professor Brian Cox gains exclusive behind-the-scenes access at Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin and Spaceport America, exploring what is really happening in privately financed space flight right now. 

From space tourism to asteroid mining, and even dreams of colonies on Mars, these new ‘masters of the universe’ refuse to limit their imaginations. But are private companies led by Jeff Bezos, Sir Richard Branson and Elon Musk really going to be able to pull this off? How will they overcome the technical challenges to achieve it? And is it really a good idea, or just a fool's errand?