Clearing up space debris and dead satellites, and tackling the issue of light pollution...
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15 June 2020
Following the successful Crew Dragon launch, Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman talks about the terrors of splashdown...
16 May 2020
Astronauts are preparing for the first flight in the Dragon spacecraft...
01 May 2020
Richard Hollingham celebrates Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, who died in March.
14 April 2020
The famous space telescope's 30th birthday, and 50 years since one of space's luckiest escapes...
10 March 2020
New ways to study the sun and planets outside our solar system, and the show takes a philatelic slant...
10 February 2020
Recorded live at European Astrofest 2020, space law, lunar ownership and the James Webb Space Telescope...
10 January 2020
Shuttle astronaut Mike Mullane recounts stories of space sexism, toilets, and M'n'Ms...
24 December 2019
On the tenth anniversary of Naked Astronomy, physicist Ben McAllister asks what's changed in astronomy over the...
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…