NASA Space Shuttle emergency landing strip

Описание: Please visit http://www.simonreeve.co.uk for more information. Simon Reeve discovers NASAs secret emergency landing strip for the space shuttle in Somaliland while making his TV series Places That Dont Exist. In the Places That Dont Exist series Simon travelled to a group of unrecognised nations countries so obscure they dont officially exist. Among the countries he visited are Somaliland and Somalia, South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Georgia, Taiwan and China, Transdniestria and Moldova, and Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The Daily Telegraph said the series was exemplaryrivetingeye-openingremarkablesuperb. Radio Times said: Delightfulsharpfirst class; and the Daily Mail said it was: Unmissable.
Simon Reeve is a bestselling author and broadcaster. In recent years hes travelled to scores of countries around the world for a series of BBC television documentaries.
The 2008 BBC TV series Tropic of Capricorn took Simon around the line marking the southern border of the tropics. His accompanying book, also called Tropic of Capricorn, is published by BBC Books.
In the BBC series Equator, Simon followed the equator through troubled areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America, including Colombia and the Congo.
And in Meet the Stans, Simon visited the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Simons book The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the future of terrorism, which warned of a new age of apocalyptic terrorism, was the first in the world on bin Laden and al Qaeda. Originally published in 1998 it has been a New York Times bestseller.
Simon has contributed to other books on organised crime, terrorism and biological warfare. His book One Day in September: the story of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, is also an Oscar-winning feature documentary film narrated by the actor Michael Douglas.
Simon has received a One World Broadcasting Trust award for an outstanding contribution to greater world understanding.
You can find out more information on Simons journeys, and see more of Simons films, at his website: http://www.simonreeve.co.uk or at    / shootandscribble  
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