Space Boffins Podcast, from the Naked Scientists
Publishing monthly, Space Boffins brings you cutting edge conversation and debate about the past, present and future of space science.
- Website
- http://www.thenakedscientists.com/astronomy
- Description
- Publishing monthly, Space Boffins brings you cutting edge conversation and debate about the past, present and future of space science.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-12-05 13:33
- last episode published
- 2024-12-03 08:32
- publication frequency
- 31.44 days
- Contributors
- Dr Chris Smith
- Owner
- Richard Hollingham, Sue Nelson
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 146
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- Detail page
- Categories
- Education Natural Sciences Higher Education Science & Medicine Health & Fitness
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-12-03 | Have we been visited by space aliens? This month space boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham delve into the history and science of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). They discuss UFOs with Pennsylvania State College professor and author of After t... |
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| 2024-10-02 | NASA's Europa Clipper mission is about to head off on a five year mission to explore one of Jupiter's largest moons. Planetary geologist mission scientist Cynthia Phillips joins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham to discuss why this icy body could poten... |
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| 2024-08-28 | Former paralympic athlete, surgeon and European Space Agency (ESA) reserve astronaut, John McFall joins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham to share his experiences of the Fly study to investigate whether people with physical disabilities could become as... |
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| 2024-07-11 | Was the Space Shuttle fundamentally flawed? Richard Hollingham talks to Adam Higginbotham, author of a new book on the Space Shuttle to discuss the design, the dream, and the wishful thinking that led to the Challenger and Columbia disasters. Sue Nelso... |
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| 2024-05-31 | NASA astronaut and pilot of the Artemis II mission to the Moon, Victor Glover, joins Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham to discuss the first Starliner launch, SpaceX, Artemis, Orion, NASA's mojo and his upcoming mission around the Moon. Pl... |
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| 2024-04-29 | Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham discuss the upcoming ESA EarthCARE mission with scientist Robin Hogan, the status of the BepiColombo mission to Mercury which will arrive at its destination next year and an exclusive as yet unheard inter... |
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| 2024-03-29 | The Chief Scientist for Intuitive Machines, Ben Bussey, joins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham to talk through the first US soft landing on the Moon since 1972, IM-1. They discuss the landing, the broken legs, experiments and whether the IM control ro... |
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| 2024-02-28 | After the first soft Moon landing from the US in over 50 years, Ken Kremer shares his excitement for Intuitive Machine's Odysseus lander, NASA's ongoing lunar ambitions, and his concerns over China stealing a lunar edge. Also UK Space Agency Head of Sp... |
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| 2024-01-29 | Legendary NASA flight director Gerry Griffin and award-winning filmmaker Chris Riley join Space Boffins after a showing of London's immersive Moonwalkers exhibition. Gerry discusses working on the Apollo missions and that infamous SCE to AUX switch as ... |
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| 2023-12-18 | It's a seasonal special from Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham with a previously unbroadcast interview with Apollo-era legend Frank Borman. Commander of Gemini 7 and Apollo 8, Colonel Borman passed away in November 2023 aged 95. His Apoll... |
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