Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
A space shuttle has 2.5 million parts and travels at over 7000 metres per second. With armour that is designed to break and heat shields that are designed to burn, spacecraft technology is literally ‘out of this world’. Using 3D computer images, high speed cameras and microscopic analysis, experts from NASA and the Russian Space Agency explain what, for once, really is ‘rocket science’.
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Building the Ultimate is a fast-paced and fascinating series, combining CGI, archive and actuality footage to show how modern technology has shaped the objects we use, fight with, live and travel in. Find out how and why our 21st century weapons, buildings, superstructures and vehicles have evolved in the face of often impossible odds, looking in detail at their different components to demonstrate human ingenuity and our endless quest to build the indestructible.
This film was first broadcast: 2003
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A space shuttle has 2.5 million parts and travels at over 7000 metres per second. With armour that is designed to break and heat shields that are designed to burn, spacecraft technology is literally ‘out of this world’. Using 3D computer images, high speed cameras and microscopic analysis, experts from NASA and the Russian Space Agency explain what, for once, really is ‘rocket science’.
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Building the Ultimate is a fast-paced and fascinating series, combining CGI, archive and actuality footage to show how modern technology has shaped the objects we use, fight with, live and travel in. Find out how and why our 21st century weapons, buildings, superstructures and vehicles have evolved in the face of often impossible odds, looking in detail at their different components to demonstrate human ingenuity and our endless quest to build the indestructible.
This film was first broadcast: 2003
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Our History - bit.ly/3rUpdhL
Our World - bit.ly/3ftuckM
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Taste - bit.ly/3OZoDcV
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Content distributed by ITV Studios.
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