Space Boffins

An Apollo legend celebrated, and insights into the developing British rocket industry

Plus, the inside story on a jet pack used by a NASA astronaut...

Plus, will China now get to the Moon first?

Is the forge of the future destined to be in orbit?

Space politics and funding, phoning home, and the space shuttle are this month's fertile topics...

It’s all about returning to the Moon and protecting the Earth...

How to protect the planet, and why Mars habitation will be hard...

Reporting on rocket launches, saving Skylab, and Soviet era space tech...

The Space Boffins probe the big question of whether we've been visited by aliens...

How societies and cities will emerge on the red planet once human colonisation is underway...

Plus, how people with physical disabilities could become astronauts...

Was the Space Shuttle fundamentally flawed, the future of the International Space Station, and we talk Star Trek...

Plus space investor Mason Angel...

And the BepiColombo mission to Mercury, which reaches its destination next year...

The first soft Moon landing since 1972, and powering a future Moonbase...

Plus de-orbiting a two-tonne satellite...

The team touch on Artemis, Apollo, Hollywood, and the immersive Moonwalkers exhibition...

His Apollo 8 mission was the first manned mission to the Moon...

Not one but two British astronauts in this edition of Space Boffins...

Sending your remains skyward, and a space repair reminscent of Apollo 13...

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the flight of the first black astronaut, and India makes it to the moon...

Clearing up space debris and dead satellites, and tackling the issue of light pollution...

Apollo 17, Orion and working with Russia in space...

Artemis Moon missions, and "rapid unscheduled disassembly" go under the microscope...