Space Boffins

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

10 July 2017

Find out all about Europe's mission to Mercury!

10 June 2017

The Space Boffins return to our nearest planetary neighbour: Mars.

11 May 2017

Richard is at SETI in California to hunt space aliens with the institute’s chief astronomer, Seth Shostak. He also...

10 April 2017

Mission controllers, the man at the heart of Apollo 13 and a meeting with Dan Dare...

10 March 2017

SpaceX and NASA compete to get people back to the Moon, Richard meets a man who grows space tomatoes in human urine,...

10 February 2017

The Space Boffins are at Astrofest in London in front of a live audience. Guests include an Antarctic meteorite hunter...

10 January 2017

Hubble's replacement, ballooning to the edge of the Earth and sex in space...

10 December 2016

In a bumper end of year special, Space Boffins features Buzz Aldrin, last man on the...

14 November 2016

Space Boffins' Sue Nelson was at ESA mission control recently when the ExoMars...

10 October 2016

Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham are on Mars...

10 September 2016

Dee O'Hara recals what it was like to work with America's first astronauts...

10 August 2016

Space Boffins are at the Blue Dot festival where they hear music from Cern's cosmic piano.

10 July 2016

This month: Jupiter's Juno mission, the magical world of Pluto and spacewalking.

10 June 2016

Captain Gene Cernan and Rusty Schweickart join the Space Boffins at Spacefest in Tucson...

10 May 2016

This month the Space Boffins get to grips with general relativity...

10 April 2016

Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham bring news of space sofas and Martian sunsets...

10 March 2016

The legendary Apollo 11 astronaut reveals his thoughts on the red planet...

10 February 2016

This month on Space Boffins, it's all things rovers...

10 January 2016

What happens when you need surgery but are living aboard the International Space Station?

10 December 2015

Prepping for Tim Peake's launch with Britain's first astronaut Helen Sharman...

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British astronaut, Tim Peake, bares all, from gravity and guitars to missions to Mars...

10 October 2015

On June 16, 1963 Valentina Tereshkova became the first female cosmonaut.

10 September 2015

Now that the probe has reached the perihelion, Space Boffins ask what's next?

12 August 2015

In a first for the Space Boffins podcast - an interview with astronauts in space! NASA...