Space Boffins

The award-winning space science, exploration and astronomy podcast from Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham...

10 July 2019

Continuing the anniversary celebration - and featuring the only woman in launch control for Apollo 11...

12 June 2019

The Boffins celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon landings...

16 May 2019

Sue Nelson interviews two remarkable women: Hidden Figure Christine Darden and Mercury 13 legend, Wally Funk.

10 April 2019

The Space Boffins get to see inside the NASA’s famous Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Centre.

11 March 2019

This month Space Boffins contemplates the missing universe.

11 February 2019

Space Boffins have a stellar line-up of guests at Astrofest 2019...

15 January 2019

Mice and flying hotdogs on the podcast as Space Boffins report from NASA on how to save Apollo’s famous mission control...

12 December 2018

Space Boffins celebrate fifty years of Apollo 8, the first manned mission to orbit the Moon.

10 November 2018

The Space Boffins podcast is in New York with NASA astronaut, engineer and Big Bang Theory star Mike Massimino.

10 October 2018

Join Space Boffins for a podcast special recorded at the European Space Agency’s ESTEC facility.

10 September 2018

Did spy satellites help prevent World War 3? You decide…

10 August 2018

It’s a rocket special on this month’s Space Boffins.

10 July 2018

Happy 7th Birthday to Space Boffins!

10 June 2018

Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham are at the National Space Centre in Leicester with BepiColombo mission...

10 May 2018

Sampling space rocks, the perils of re-directing asteroids, and life on the first International Space Station.

10 April 2018

After 2000 days on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover is still going strong. Space Boffins explore water on Mars, life and...

10 March 2018

Could life on Earth be wiped out by a killer asteroid? The short answer is yes.

10 February 2018

Queen guitarist Brian May adds some celebrity stardust and the Space Boffins present from the British Interplanetary...

10 January 2018

What does microgravity feel like?

10 December 2017

Reflecting on 2017's space science, and a look to the future.

10 November 2017

The Space Boffins talk to Dallas Campbell on how to leave Earth, and take a trip to the Very Large Array telescope in...

10 October 2017

To celebrate World Space Week, Richard and Sue head off to the European Space Agency’s ESTEC Open Day

10 September 2017

This month, Space Boffins says goodbye to Cassini ahead of its grand finale...

10 August 2017

Celebrate 40 years of the Voyager mission with Space Boffins, plus there be genetically engineered space travellers in...