In Popular Culture
RAL was used as a set for the filming of an episode of Terry Nation's BBC TV series Blake's 7.
The computer-generated imagery (CGI) for Ridley Scott's 1979 film Alien were created at the Atlas Computer Laboratory which is now part of RAL.
The Space Science department featured in the In the Box episode of the CBeebies series Nina and the Neurons.
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