Perseverance on Mars

With NASA’s Perseverance rover safely on Mars, Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham chat to science writer Elizabeth Howell about the array of missions now studying the red planet. We also hear from the European Space Agency’s head of diversity, Ersilia Vaudo, about plans for parastronauts and the UK ground station that relayed the first footsteps on the Moon gears up for the next big lunar adventure. Plus, find out who was right in the great US first-astronaut debate...