A Trip to Space
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 10
- Years Active
- 2021
Episode 10: A Trip into the Deep Past
Space news
Hubble still down: NASA is trying to fix the HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE after a memory module failure forced the agency to shut down the iconic orbiting observatory.
The problem is with the pay…
Episode 9: A Trip to Strange Stars
This week in space news
China in space: The Chinese Space Agency has sent a trio of astronauts to spend the next three months of the Tiangong space station. This is a brand new modular space station b…
Episode 8: A Trip Beyond the Edge
This week on the show we look at the European Space Agency's planned trip to Venus, new competition for SpaceX in the launch market and what is a solar eclipse?
We also launch a new feature – exoplane…
Episode 7: A Trip to LEO and Venus
NASA is going back to Venus, selecting the VERITAS and DAVINCI+ missions as part of the Discovery program, with both scheduled to launch between 2028 and 2030.
These two missions to Earth's hellish tw…
Episode 6: A trip to the edge
This week on the show we find that the Milky Way may not be all that unique, plasma from a microsecond after the Big Bang may have made all atoms, SpaceX may be creating a monopoly and the second cha…
Episode 5: A Trip back to the Moon
This week on the A Trip to Space podcast we take a trip back to the Moon, where ESA and NASA are preparing to make exploration much easier and more sustainable.
First The European Space Agency has an…
Episode 4: A Trip to the Sun
This week on A Trip to Space we take a Trip to the Sun, exploring the where, why, how hot and what for of our own host star – a G-type main-sequence star at the centre of the solar system that formed…
Episode 3: A Trip to Mars
In the latest edition of A Trip to Space we take a trip to Mars, wrapping up some of the latest research on life on the Red Planet and the sound of a helicopter flying in the Martian sky.
Is it posilb…
Episode 2: A Trip to Venus
In the second episode of the ‘A Trip to Space' podcast I look at a new study that explores why the Sun is so hot in its outer atmosphere than it is lower down, radio signals from Venus and upcoming t…
Episode 1: Interview with Ed Gibson
NASA astronaut Ed Gibson went to space in 1973 as part of the Skylab 4 mission, the final crew to visit the only fully-US operated space station. He was the last person out the door.
Gibson was select…