Comedian and space enthusiast Helen Keen (creator of BBC Radio 4's multi-award-winning It Is Rocket Science) welcomes you to a podcast inspired by space travel in general and Tim Peake's mission to the International Space Station in particular. In this episode - (1min 44 secs) we meet Andrew Winnard, a space medicine researcher, who explains how studying astronauts might one day help to fix your sore back, and also the perils of going to the gym in space... then (24mins 10secs) Dr Sheila Kanani tells us why she loves the moons of Saturn, and talks 200 years of the Royal Astronomical Society For more from our guests: Andrew Winnard's work is covered here https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/news/2015/10/northumbria-space-researcher-soars-into-the-stratosphere-with-industry-award/ And also more on the research generally https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/oct/25/long-term-space-flight-gives-astronauts-extra-inches-and-back-problems ...& of course Tim Peake's marathon http://www.space.com/32682-tim-peake-breaks-space-marathon-record.html Ian Simmons is at http://www.sciencecentresinternational.com/ Follow Dr Sheila Kanani on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SaturnSheila and via her website https://saturnsheila.wordpress.com/ . You can find out more about visiting the wonderful Royal Astronomical Society here https://www.ras.org.uk/education-and-careers