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Wally Funk Heads for Space
... Science and Space Correspondent Jonathan Amos to celebrate Mercury 13 legend Wally Funk as she prepares to launch to ... Sue shares a new conversation with Wally testing out a Mercury capsule. We also catch up on ten years of space ... Worden. Here’s to the next ten years! We celebrate the Mercury 13 mission and Wally Funk's return to the void... ...
Magnificent Mercury: BepiColombo
Magnificent Mercury is in full focus. Space Boffins Sue Nelson and ... thermal spacecraft model for Europe’s first mission to Mercury in October. Expect to hear from ESA’s chief ... Professor Emma Bunce and Dr Suzie Imber. Magnificent Mercury: BepiColombo ...
Eyes on the Sky for Mercury
On 9 May, Mercury will be seen as a black dot silhouetted against the ... life, as Graihagh Jackson finds out... On 9 May, Mercury will be seen as a black dot silhouetted against the Sun... Eyes on the Sky for Mercury ...
Mission To Mercury
... to see the BepiColombo spacecraft - Europe’s mission to Mercury. As the LISA Pathfinder mission comes to a successful ... Tate Liverpool... Find out all about Europe's mission to Mercury! Mission To Mercury ...
EarthCARE, Starliner and NASA’s George Abbey
... Robin Hogan, the status of the BepiColombo mission to Mercury which will arrive at its destination next year and an ... to the Brits of Apollo... And the BepiColombo mission to Mercury, which reaches its destination next year... ...
All Systems Go: NASA's new giant rocket
... power of the Sun. Sue reports on Europe's new mission to Mercury, they celebrate the 50th anniversary of the missions ... Launch System is getting along and Europe's new mission to Mercury.... All Systems Go: NASA's new giant rocket ...
BepiColombo lobster eyes and Apollo legends
After BepiColombo’s recent flyby of Mercury, Space Boffins Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson hear ... of Snoopy references! How BepiColombo looked down on Mercury as it flew by recently... BepiColombo lobster eyes ...
Remarkable Women: A hidden history
... women for this podcast: Hidden Figure Christine Darden and Mercury 13 legend and astronaut wannabe, Wally Funk. ... two remarkable women: Hidden Figure Christine Darden and Mercury 13 legend, Wally Funk. Remarkable Women: A hidden ...
Is There Liquid Water on Mars?
... of the planet. So it's our little neighbour. Ben - So Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars. Those nursery rhymes do ring ... planets that are in the solar system close to us, there's Mercury right. Closest planet to the Sun, and in terms of ...
Astrofest Live!
... weirdly-shaped space rocks and Europe’s mission to Mercury. They’re joined by science writer Stuart Clark, the ...
China on the Moon
... from author Rebecca Siegel about the enormous egos of the Mercury astronauts and celebrate space chimp Ham. And should ...
Nursing NASA's Astronauts
The Space Boffins meet the Mercury 7 nurse, Dee O'Hara, recalling what it was like to ...
Sampling An Asteroid
... space station, Salyut 6, and Europe’s ambitious Mercury mission gets packed-up ready for launch. Sampling ...
Cassini's Grand Finale
... eclipses and Cassini’s final days at Saturn. Apollo, Mercury and Shuttle propulsions engineer John Tribe ...
Have you been mis-sold time?
... celebrate the flight of America's first manned mission, Mercury 3. This month the Space Boffins get to grips with ...
The largest telescope ever made
... the data. In the old days, we used to have what we called mercury delay lines, which were actually tubes filled with mercury, that were actually adjusted, but each individual ...
Storms on the Sun
... are going very close to the sun. So within the orbit of Mercury Solar Orbiter, for example, and they've had to be ...