Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists
Naked Astronomy: the Naked Scientists' Astronomy and Space Science Podcast - audio that's out of this world...
- Update frequency
- every 27 days
- Average duration
- 44 minutes
- Episodes
- 222
- Years Active
- 2009 - 2025
Rosetta: Six Months Later
Space Boffins Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson are joined by astronomer, Guardian writer and guitarist Stuart Clark for a Rosetta mission special - six months after it made history by landing on a c…
00:28:29 |
Sat 09 May 2015
Out of this World: Britain's history in space
Space Boffins Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson are inside London's Science Museum with the museum's curator of space, Doug Millard, and the original Apollo 10 capsule. Apart from a tribute to Apollo…
00:36:39 |
Wed 15 Apr 2015
All Systems Go: NASA's new giant rocket
This month Richard sees NASA's new giant rocket, the Space Launch System, taking shape in New Orleans. In the studio the Space Boffins are joined by poet Simon Barraclough to discuss the poetic power…
00:37:36 |
Tue 10 Mar 2015
Recovering Beagle 2 from Mars
Space Boffins Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson discover why we should recover Beagle 2 from the surface of Mars; why we need the Uranus Pathfinder mission; and how exoplanets are putting a twinkle i…
00:33:51 |
Tue 10 Feb 2015
Space Exploration in 2015
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham are joined by the BBC's Jon Amos and ExoMars' Andrew Coates. They look ahead at the most exciting missions of 2015 so expect New Horizons, Ceres and Ti…
00:37:30 |
Sat 10 Jan 2015
Orion: the first step to Mars?
Sue Nelson joins space fans in Florida to witness the Orion launch and meets Mars candidate Elmo. Meanwhile, Richard Hollingham talks to the DG of the UK Space Agency, David Parker, about the Interna…
00:36:27 |
Wed 10 Dec 2014
Space: triumph and tragedy
Emotions are running high in this month's Space Boffins as Sue reports from Germany on Europe's cometary landing. And, following the SpaceShipTwo tragedy and Antares explosion, Sue and Richard discus…
00:38:52 |
Fri 14 Nov 2014
ESTEC: The heart of the European Space Agency
Space Boffin Sue Nelson is at the European Space Agency's technical heart - ESTEC in the Netherlands - where spacecraft undergo a crucial 'shake and bake' before launch. She's joined by astronauts P…
00:29:02 |
Thu 09 Oct 2014
The Spacewalk from Hell
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham hear from the Rosetta mission's Flight Director, Andrea Accomazzo, about choosing a landing site on comet 67P - plus Apollo astronaut and last man on t…
00:34:21 |
Tue 09 Sep 2014
The Last Man on the Moon
In this special edition, the Last Man on the Moon, Gene Cernan, talks exclusively to Richard Hollingham about the final step, mortality and his disappointment about the way the space programme has de…
00:27:21 |
Sat 09 Aug 2014
Rescuing astronauts from space
How do you orbit a comet? Set up a government in space or rescue a space shuttle crew? These questions and more in the latest edition of Space Boffins. Sue and Richard are at University College Londo…
00:29:37 |
Wed 09 Jul 2014
Drowning in Space
How do you design the inside of a starship? Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham talk to space architect Rachel Armstrong about journeys to the stars. They also meet Luca Parmitano, the as…
00:34:02 |
Mon 09 Jun 2014
Virtual Rides into Space
Aaron Knoll and Chris Bridges join Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham at the Surrey Space Centre for a virtual ride into space. Plus science minister David Willetts argues for a spacepor…
00:28:42 |
Fri 09 May 2014
The Mars Yard
The Space Boffins are in America to hear about Neil Armstrong and the hypersonic X-15 at the Edwards Air Force base, and they're also reporting from the surface of Mars. More precisely, from the UK's…
00:33:31 |
Wed 09 Apr 2014
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the challenge of looking for space aliens and why they never attack Belgium is under scrutiny this month. Plus, Richard Hollingham also reports from t…
00:35:55 |
Mon 10 Mar 2014
Exo Mars and Crowd-funded SpaceCraft
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham dodge a prototype Mars rover on location at Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage - where the future Exo Mars mission rover is going to be built. They'…
00:29:54 |
Mon 10 Feb 2014
Chris Hadfield: How to fix a space toilet
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham meet astronaut Chris Hadfield. In this special edition of the podcast, Commander Hadfield talks about fixing a space toilet, how rifle practice helpe…
00:26:17 |
Fri 10 Jan 2014
Astronomy in South Africa
Meera Senthilingam takes a tour of the South African Large Telescope (SALT) and neighbouring facilities. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
00:26:33 |
Wed 25 Dec 2013
The future of lunar space missions
Join Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham for a lunar love-in featuring Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell and studio guests David Baker, author of the latest Apollo 13 Haines Manual, and t…
00:38:01 |
Tue 10 Dec 2013
The Space Boffins look forward to ExoMars
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham are joined by new Mars Society president Jerry Stone and aspiring astronaut Kate Arkless-Gray. Sue reports from the UK control room of the Mars SAFER f…
00:39:31 |
Mon 25 Nov 2013
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