NOVA Season 5 Episode 9
The Mind Machines
In the summer of 1977 Paul MacCready, a California scientist and businessman, won the coveted Kremer Prize. His achievement was to design and build an airplane which completed, unaided, a one-mile figure-eight course entirely under the power provided by the pilot himself. This is the story of those many failures and MacCready's success.
5 - 20Alaska: The Closing FrontierJun. 28, 1978- 5 - 19A Whisper From SpaceJun. 21, 1978
- 5 - 18Memories From EdenJun. 14, 1978
- 5 - 17The Tse Tse TrapJun. 07, 1978
- 5 - 16The Desert's EdgeMay. 31, 1978
- 5 - 15The Insect AlternativeMay. 24, 1978
- 5 - 14Light Of The 21st CenturyMay. 10, 1978
- 5 - 13Road To HappinessMay. 03, 1978
- 5 - 12Battle For The AcropolisApr. 19, 1978
- 5 - 11Still WatersApr. 12, 1978
- 5 - 10Icarus' ChildrenMar. 29, 1978
- 5 - 9The Mind MachinesMar. 22, 1978
- 5 - 8The Case Of The Ancient AstronautsMar. 08, 1978
- 5 - 7The Great Wine RevolutionMar. 01, 1978
- 5 - 6Trial Of Denton CooleyFeb. 22, 1978
- 5 - 5BaMiki BaNdula: Children of the ForestFeb. 15, 1978
- 5 - 4The Final Frontier (2)Feb. 01, 1978
- 5 - 3One Small Step (1)Jan. 25, 1978
- 5 - 2Blueprints in the BloodstreamJan. 18, 1978
- 5 - 1In The Event of CatastropheJan. 04, 1978
