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Lunar Gateway and The End of Everything
Space scientist Katie Mack talks to Chris Smith about The End of Everything, and space journalist Richard Hollingham fills Chris in on the ... You've gone past a hundred episodes of the program [Space Boffins] now. Richard - We've actually made way more than a ...
Introducing Space Boffins!
... launching something very special. We've teamed up with the Space Boffins podcast to bring you even more space science. Each month, Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson ...
Dodging Space Harpoons
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham dodge space harpoons, discuss whether Mars One will encourage Big ... Bennell and space scientist Ralph Cordey join the Space Boffins to demonstrate how to remove space junk with a flying ...
Emu eggs, vision aids and bed bugs
Our experts - Richard Hollingham, space and science journalist; Keziah Latham, optometrist; ... this week, Richard Hollingham is an award winning space and science journalist. He also makes the 'space boffins podcast' has been going a while now. Richard ...
Space Boffins on the ISS
This month in the Space Boffins podcast: a tour of the International Space Station, an Apollo astronaut and the mission to the ...
The First Woman in Space
Space Boffins Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson's star (and space) studded podcast includes the first woman in space, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, and astronaut Tim ...
Sputnik: The space race's opening shot
... the first Friday in October, 1957 at 19:28 that the great space began. Sputnik was propelled into orbit by the Russians ... to launch that satellite. And it wasn't really about a space race, it was about the fact that if the Soviet Union ... Hollingham who you may recognise from presenting the Space Boffins podcast too. But that wasn't the only thing that was ...
Space Boffins Live - ESA Special
Astronaut Paolo Nespoli joins Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham for a podcast special recorded at the European Space Agency’s ESTEC facility in The Netherlands during ...
Space Boffins celebrate their century
Space Boffins celebrate their 100th Naked Scientists’ edition ... NASA’s head of science, Thomas Zurbuchen, and the UK Space Agency’s head of human space exploration, Libby ... the event... Celebrating the 100th Naked Scientists Space Boffins edition, with NASA’s head of science, Thomas ...
Will space tourism ever be affordable?
Space science journalist Richard Hollingham took on this ... there's a lot of evidence that if you see the earth from space you get this idea of the earth without borders: you can ... Chris Smith - So, if Mr. Branson phones up the Space Boffins podcast and says, "Richard, would you like to go into ...
Astronaut Mike Mullane: Life on the Space Shuttle
... - Mike Mullane was recruited in the first intake of space shuttle astronauts and flew 3 missions in the spacecraft. He spoke with Sue Nelson from the Space Boffins back in January 2020… Mike - Well, every ...
Anticipating the first James Webb images
Now, to space. There’s a few things to be excited about if you’re ... moon. For this celestial roundup, James Tytko spoke with space science journalist Richard Hollingham of the Space Boffins podcast… James - So Richard, the time is almost ...
Space Boffins Search for ET
The Space Boffins Podcast comes to you this month from the Search for ... new mission to the Moon. Also this time, Richard lands the Space Shuttle and listen out for the remixed Space Boffins jingle... The Space Boffins Podcast comes to you this ...
Can I play a guitar in space?
... - Simple enough, Now say we were to blast off into space with our acoustic guitars, would we have any luck? Jim - There can be no sound in space because there's no air to transmit the sound waves. So ... space station, which, fortunately, contains air? The space boffins have been hearing from a real astronaut, Tim Peake ...
Hubble, TRUTHS and space Law
Recorded live at European Astrofest 2020, Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham are joined by UK Space Agency chief scientist Chris Lee, professor of space ...
Flowers in Space
The Space Boffins are joined by Gardeners of the Galaxy podcast host ... joys of growing flowers, chillies and vines (for wine!) in space. Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham also chat to self-confessed space nerd John Chinner about the Astro Pi computers on the ...
James Webb and astronaut Jessica Meir
It’s been decades in the making but the James Webb Space Telescope - an international collaboration between NASA, ESA and the Canadian Space Agency - is finally ready for launch. ESA’s senior science advisor Mark McCaughrean joins Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham to enthuse about ...
Hello, this is the International Space Station
In a first for the Space Boffins podcast - an interview with astronauts in space! NASA's Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko are ...
Space Boffins Explore ESTEC
Two astronauts and an Imperial Storm Trooper join the Space Boffins podcast from the Netherlands at the European Space Agency’s ESTEC Open Day, where thousands of people ...
Space, Boffins & Rock Stars
... that he’s been quietly contributing to not one, but two space missions. Also on the podcast, Britain’s first ... astronaut Helen Sharman discusses the future of orbiting space stations and Chris Welch bigs up the International ... and explains why he has a Project Juno poster. Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham are presenting the ...
Space Boffins Blast Off!
It’s a rocket special on this month’s Space Boffins with Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham. As the UK’s ... companies are at the forefront of a commercial space race for launching small satellites from the UK. Sue ...
Juice to Jupiter and forgotten space shuttles
One of the leading scientists on the European Space Agency’s Juice mission to Jupiter, Michele Dougherty, talks to Space Boffins’ Richard Hollingham about icy moons, magnetic ...
Failed launch from Spaceport Cornwall
... been building for the first launch from Cornwall’s new space port; it was a UK first but sadly its first mission ... to deploy its cargo, which had burned up over the ocean. Space journalist and presenter of the Space Boffins Podcast Richard Hollingham was following the events ...
Russian Lunar Rovers and Floating Number Twos
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham talk Mars rovers, ... weren't so far fetched after all. London science museum space curator Doug Millard also features discussing Luna 9 and, joining the Space Boffins in the studio, is best selling author Rowland White, ...
Cubesats, Hubble and Apollo 13 Trouble
Space Boffins Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson celebrate ... astronaut Kathy Sullivan, whose mission deployed the space telescope, and hear from NASA engineer Jerry Woodfill ... celebrating its 50th lucky escape anniversary. The Space Boffins also meet Craig Clark, founder of AAC Clyde Space, ...