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10 July 2017
Space Boffin Sue Nelson and The Guardian’s Stuart Clark are at the European Space Agency’s ESTEC facility in The Netherlands to see the BepiColombo spacecraft - Europe’s mission to Mercury. As the...
10 July 2017
Find out all about Europe's mission to Mercury!
10 June 2017
The Space Boffins return to our nearest planetary neighbour: Mars.
11 May 2017
Richard is at SETI in California to hunt space aliens with the institute’s chief astronomer, Seth Shostak. He also...
10 April 2017
Mission controllers, the man at the heart of Apollo 13 and a meeting with Dan Dare...
10 March 2017
SpaceX and NASA compete to get people back to the Moon, Richard meets a man who grows space tomatoes in human urine,...
10 February 2017
The Space Boffins are at Astrofest in London in front of a live audience. Guests include an Antarctic meteorite hunter...
10 January 2017
Hubble's replacement, ballooning to the edge of the Earth and sex in space...
10 December 2016
In a bumper end of year special, Space Boffins features Buzz Aldrin, last man on the...
14 November 2016
Space Boffins' Sue Nelson was at ESA mission control recently when the ExoMars...
10 October 2016
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham are on Mars...
10 September 2016
Dee O'Hara recals what it was like to work with America's first astronauts...
10 August 2016
Space Boffins are at the Blue Dot festival where they hear music from Cern's cosmic piano.
10 July 2016
This month: Jupiter's Juno mission, the magical world of Pluto and spacewalking.
10 June 2016
Captain Gene Cernan and Rusty Schweickart join the Space Boffins at Spacefest in Tucson...
10 May 2016
This month the Space Boffins get to grips with general relativity...
10 April 2016
Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham bring news of space sofas and Martian sunsets...
10 March 2016
The legendary Apollo 11 astronaut reveals his thoughts on the red planet...
10 February 2016
This month on Space Boffins, it's all things rovers...
10 January 2016
What happens when you need surgery but are living aboard the International Space Station?
10 December 2015
Prepping for Tim Peake's launch with Britain's first astronaut Helen Sharman...
10 November 2015
British astronaut, Tim Peake, bares all, from gravity and guitars to missions to Mars...
10 October 2015
On June 16, 1963 Valentina Tereshkova became the first female cosmonaut.
10 September 2015
Now that the probe has reached the perihelion, Space Boffins ask what's next?
12 August 2015
In a first for the Space Boffins podcast - an interview with astronauts in space! NASA...