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Astronomy Podcasts
Naked Astronomy: the Naked Scientists' Astronomy and Space Science Podcast - audio that's out of this world...
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.
10 March 2015
How NASA's Space Launch System is getting along and Europe's new mission to Mercury....
10 February 2015
Why we should rescue Beagle 2; why Uranus should be next on the agenda; and space music..
10 January 2015
Space Boffins look forward to the most exciting missions of 2015...
10 December 2014
How astronauts get their caffeine fix in space, the future of NASA and the Orion launch...
14 November 2014
Rosetta's comet landing, the tragedy of SpaceShipTwo and a man who commands a Mars base.
10 October 2014
New spaceplanes, chocolate comets and the future of space travel...
10 September 2014
A song about photons, how to choose a landing site on a comet and the spacewalk from hell
10 August 2014
Space Boffins speak to the last man to ever set foot on the Moon, Gene Cernan.
10 July 2014
How do you orbit a comet? Set up a government in space or rescue a space shuttle crew?
10 June 2014
How to build a the ultimate spaceship, what it's like to drown in space and Google's new satellite.
10 May 2014
Virtual rides into space, why Scotland needs a spaceport and the incoming asteroid with Earth's name on it...
10 April 2014
The Space Boffins are joined by UK minister Vince Cable on a visit to a Mars mock-up on Earth, and talk to shuttle...
10 March 2014
This month, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the challenge of looking for space aliens and why they...
10 February 2014
We meet a prototype Exo Mars rover on location at Airbus Defence & Space in Stevenage, reports on Urthecast aboard...
10 January 2014
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham meet astronaut Chris Hadfield.
25 December 2013
Meera Senthilingam takes a tour of the South African Large Telescope (SALT) and neighbouring facilities.
10 December 2013
The Space Boffins have a lunar love-in featuring Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell and studio guests David Baker and...
25 November 2013
The Space Boffins report from the UK control room of the Mars SAFER field trial as scientists operate an ExoMars rover...
08 November 2013
Sue reports from the UK control room of the Mars SAFER field trial as scientists operate an ExoMars rover prototype.