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Space Boffins
The award-winning space science, exploration and astronomy podcast from Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham...
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04 September 2025
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...
13 July 2015
Recent rocket fails; a village on the moon and is space exploration good for all?
10 June 2015
Eileen Collins talks of flying shuttles and how female astronauts are treated by the media
10 May 2015
Six months after the historic landing the Space Boffins catch up with the Rosetta team.
16 April 2015
Space Boffins visit the original Apollo 10 craft; Skylon's spaceplane and ExoMars mission.