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http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo Tuesday 8:30pm BBC Two/OU James May, from Top Gear, gets to grips with the innovations that changed people's lives in his new series for BBC Two, James May's 20th Century. In Episode 2, James wants to find out what the space race did for all of us who never got a chance to blast off into orbit. He gets to road-test a street-legal version of the lunar buggy, but finds out that the gravity here on Planet Earth makes the handling difficult. He then discovers, to his surprise, that the race to the Moon began in Chiswick, West London. Next, James borrows a satellite for an afternoon to take his own snap from 700km above Earth; and he travels to Nasa's launch pad in Florida to see for himself the massive Saturn moon rockets that he once made in kit form in his bedroom.