The first soft Moon landing since 1972, and powering a future Moonbase...
Space Boffins
The award-winning space science, exploration and astronomy podcast from Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham...
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29 March 2024
10 January 2020
Shuttle astronaut Mike Mullane recounts stories of space sexism, toilets, and M'n'Ms...
13 December 2019
Seamstresses to the stars: the team who made Neil Armstrong's spacesuit
10 November 2019
What would a house on Mars look like?
15 October 2019
Virgin Orbit, Sweden's contribution to space, and an interview with the world's first spacewalker...
10 September 2019
The Boffins learn how to keep Mars safe from Earth-bugs. Plus: two Mars rovers, and a quarantine facility...
14 August 2019
Recorded at the recent Bluedot festival; preserving the Apollo sites and latest meteorite mission.
10 July 2019
Continuing the anniversary celebration - and featuring the only woman in launch control for Apollo 11...
12 June 2019
The Boffins celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon landings...
16 May 2019
Sue Nelson interviews two remarkable women: Hidden Figure Christine Darden and Mercury 13 legend, Wally Funk.
10 April 2019
The Space Boffins get to see inside the NASA’s famous Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Centre.
11 March 2019
This month Space Boffins contemplates the missing universe.
11 February 2019
Space Boffins have a stellar line-up of guests at Astrofest 2019...
15 January 2019
Mice and flying hotdogs on the podcast as Space Boffins report from NASA on how to save Apollo’s famous mission control...
12 December 2018
Space Boffins celebrate fifty years of Apollo 8, the first manned mission to orbit the Moon.
10 November 2018
The Space Boffins podcast is in New York with NASA astronaut, engineer and Big Bang Theory star Mike Massimino.
10 October 2018
Join Space Boffins for a podcast special recorded at the European Space Agency’s ESTEC facility.
10 September 2018
Did spy satellites help prevent World War 3? You decide…
10 August 2018
It’s a rocket special on this month’s Space Boffins.
10 July 2018
Happy 7th Birthday to Space Boffins!
10 June 2018
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham are at the National Space Centre in Leicester with BepiColombo mission...
10 May 2018
Sampling space rocks, the perils of re-directing asteroids, and life on the first International Space Station.
10 April 2018
After 2000 days on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover is still going strong. Space Boffins explore water on Mars, life and...
10 March 2018
Could life on Earth be wiped out by a killer asteroid? The short answer is yes.
10 February 2018
Queen guitarist Brian May adds some celebrity stardust and the Space Boffins present from the British Interplanetary...