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Season 3 Episode 3: Saving Hubble, First Primates, Iraqibacter

Saving Hubble - Two teams of spacewalkers take on the risky mission of reviving the ailing Space Telescope. First Primates - Our most distant primate ancestors, which lived about 55 million years ago, were tree-dwellers the size of mice. Profile: Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa - He jumped the fence from Mexico to work as a farmhand and ended up a leading brain surgeon. Killer Microbe - A relatively benign bug becomes a highly lethal pathogen, known to U.S. soldiers as Iraqibacter.

Genre:

Documentary, News

Seasons:

6

Episodes:

40

Actor:

David Pogue, Ziya Tong, Peter Standring

Quality:

HD

Status:

Ended

First Air:

2005

IMDb:

8.0