Space Boffins, from the Naked Scientists
Publishing monthly, Space Boffins brings you cutting edge conversation and debate about the past, present and future of space science.
- Update frequency
- every 30 days
- Average duration
- 44 minutes
- Episodes
- 153
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
Solar Orbiter, stamps and exoplanets
The Sun, stamps and exoplanets in this edition. ESA's senior science advisor Mark McCaughrean reflects on the emotional launch of Solar Orbiter, Nobel Prize winner Didier Queloz talks CHEOPS as the t…
00:45:04 |
Tue 10 Mar 2020
Hubble, TRUTHS and space Law
Live at Astrofest 2020, Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham talk to UK Space Agency chief scientist Chris Lee, space law expert Chris Newman and the European Space Agency's Antonella Nota. They discuss…
00:36:38 |
Mon 10 Feb 2020
Robot Arms and Space Toilets
Shuttle astronaut Mike Mullane recounts stories of space sexism, toilets and M and Ms in the first Space Boffins podcast of 2020. We also meet the engineer developing the controls for a new robotic a…
00:41:21 |
Fri 10 Jan 2020
Glove Actually and the Sew Sisters
Rubber gloves, sew sisters and a mission to the Sun with Space Boffins Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson this month. Richard talks to Solar Orbiter ESA and NASA mission scientists in Munich. Sue repo…
Fri 13 Dec 2019
Moving to Mars
What would a house on Mars look like? Space Boffins Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson tackle the tricky topic of Mars interior design and the challenges of moving to Mars. They're joined by the Head …
00:52:25 |
Sun 10 Nov 2019
Cosmic Girl - from California to Cornwall
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham visit Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne factory floor in Long Beach, California and Sue heads to Spaceport Cornwall, where Virgin Orbit plans to launch its sm…
00:44:07 |
Tue 15 Oct 2019
Lunar Heritage and Lost Meteorites
Space Boffins Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson with a TinTin style headline for this month's podcast: lunar heritage and the lost meteorites of Antarctica. Recorded at the recent Bluedot festival, S…
00:37:56 |
Sat 10 Aug 2019
Apollo 11 Special (Part 2)
This is a Space Boffins podcast to blow your minds. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Moon landings, it features the only woman in launch control for Apollo 11, JoAnn Morgan, talking about her …
00:56:59 |
Wed 10 Jul 2019
Apollo 11 Special (Part 1)
As mankind celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Moon landings, Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham are joined by bestselling Apollo 11 author David Whitehouse at the British Interplanet…
00:55:29 |
Sun 09 Jun 2019
Remarkable Women: A hidden history
Space Boffin Sue Nelson interviews two remarkable women for this podcast: Hidden Figure Christine Darden and Mercury 13 legend and astronaut wannabe, Wally Funk.  Darden, who featured in the boo…
00:30:28 |
Wed 15 May 2019
Giant Rockets to the Moon
The Space Boffins get to see inside the NASA's famous Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Centre - a building so large that it has its own weather system. It's being adapted so that NASA's…
00:47:41 |
Tue 09 Apr 2019
Spacecraft Reunited
This month Space Boffins contemplates the missing universe, the nature of humanity and reunites astronaut Nicole Stott with her Space Shuttle Atlantis. Richard Hollingham is joined by theoretical phy…
00:30:42 |
Mon 11 Mar 2019
Astrofest Live!
Space Boffins are live on stage at Astrofest 2019 in London with a stellar line-up of guests to discuss landing on Phobos, weirdly-shaped space rocks and Europe's mission to Mercury. They're joined b…
00:29:27 |
Mon 11 Feb 2019
Flying hotdogs
Mice and flying hotdogs on the podcast as we report from NASA on how to save Apollo's famous mission control and discuss China's landing on the far side of the Moon. Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Rich…
00:39:42 |
Wed 16 Jan 2019
Mission to the Moon
Apollo 8 commander, Frank Borman, joins Space Boffins Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson in this month's podcast. Fifty years ago Apollo 8 became the first manned mission to orbit the Moon and so the …
00:50:01 |
Thu 13 Dec 2018
Don't call me Fruit Loops!
The Space Boffins podcast is in New York with NASA astronaut, engineer and Big Bang Theory star Mike Massimino. Recorded on the Hudson River from the flight deck of the USS Intrepid - where Massimino…
00:30:33 |
Mon 12 Nov 2018
Space Boffins Live ESA Special
Astronaut Paolo Nespoli joins Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham for a podcast special recorded at the European Space Agency's ESTEC facility in The Netherlands during their Open Day. Th…
00:28:33 |
Tue 09 Oct 2018
Spy Satellite Special
In a special edition of Space Boffins, Richard Hollingham meets a man rarer than a Moonwalker - a spy satellite engineer. Phil Pressel led the team that built the camera for the Hexagon spy satellite…
00:27:50 |
Mon 10 Sep 2018
Space Boffins Blast Off!
It's a rocket special on this month's Space Boffins with Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham. As the UK's plans for a Spaceport forge ahead, two microlauncher companies are at the forefront of a commer…
00:42:14 |
Thu 09 Aug 2018
Rockets in the Jungle
It's the 7th anniversary of Space Boffins and Sue and Richard are joined by BBC Science Correspondent, Jonathan Amos - a guest on the very first podcast. Meanwhile, Richard reports from the new Arian…
00:45:49 |
Mon 09 Jul 2018
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