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
Roving Over Mars
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham are on Mars - which turns out to be behind a blue door in the Hertfordshire town of Stevenage. With guest Airbus head of science, Ralph Cordey, they di…
00:41:41 |
Mon 10 Oct 2016
Nursing NASA's Astronauts
The Space Boffins meet the Mercury 7 nurse, Dee O'Hara, recalling what it was like to work with America's first astronauts. SETI's Seth Shostak explains why we should target AI to discover ET, and - …
00:45:58 |
Fri 09 Sep 2016
From The Blue Dot Festival
The Space Boffins are at the Blue Dot music festival at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire where they hear live music from Cern's cosmic piano and chat to Rosetta project scientist (and space celebrity) Matt T…
00:35:34 |
Tue 09 Aug 2016
Jupiter's Juno Mission
Jupiter's Juno mission, the magical world of Pluto and spacewalking feature in this special fifth anniversary edition of the podcast. ESA's head of the neutral buoyancy facility, Herve Stevenin, expl…
00:40:59 |
Sat 09 Jul 2016
Hot from Spacefest
Last man on the Moon, Captain Gene Cernan, and Apollo 9 lunar module pilot Rusty Schweickart join Space Boffin Richard at Spacefest in Tucson, Arizona. Apollo 17 commander Cernan expresses his frustr…
00:34:55 |
Thu 09 Jun 2016
Have you been mis-sold time?
This month the Space Boffins get to grips with relativity, watch as British astronaut Tim Peake manoeuvres a Mars rover in a cave, and go inside a section of NASA's new giant rocket. With their guest…
00:40:20 |
Mon 09 May 2016
Riding on a Space Sofa
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham bring news of space sofas, super flat floors and Martian sunsets. They are joined at The Open University by ExoMars mission principal investigator Dr M…
00:38:21 |
Sat 09 Apr 2016
Buzz Aldrin and his master plan for Mars
Buzz Aldrin is the legendary Apollo 11 and Gemini 12 astronaut who made history in 1969 when he became one of the first men to walk on the lunar surface. Today, he has his sights firmly on the future…
00:24:07 |
Thu 10 Mar 2016
Russian Lunar Rovers and Floating Number Twos
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham talk Mars rovers, Russian lunar rovers and floating number twos during this month's podcast. Europe's ExoMars mission scientist Nicholas Thomas reveals…
00:42:55 |
Wed 10 Feb 2016
Surgery in Space
The Space Boffins talk surgery in space with a real life Dr McCoy, NASA astronaut and physician Michael Barratt, and report from a school in St Albans during Tim Peake's first ham radio contact with …
00:39:22 |
Sun 10 Jan 2016
Christmas in Space
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham prepare for Tim Peake's launch to the International Space Station by speaking to Britain's first astronaut - Helen Sharman. ESA's Dr Volker Damann, Hea…
00:38:43 |
Thu 10 Dec 2015
Gravity and Guitars with Tim Peake
Richard sits down with British European Space Agency astronaut, Tim Peake, to discuss gravity, guitars, 1980s computers and future missions to the Moon and Mars. Recorded on location at the National …
00:36:58 |
Tue 10 Nov 2015
The First Woman in Space
Space Boffins Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson's star (and space) studded podcast includes the first woman in space, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, and astronaut Tim Peake. Britain's first European…
00:40:00 |
Fri 09 Oct 2015
Done and Dusted: What's Next for Rosetta?
Space Boffins Richard Hollingham and Sue Nelson are joined by the Rosetta's project scientist, Dr Matt Taylor, to hear the latest on ESA's comet chasing mission now that perihelion is done and dusted…
00:35:24 |
Wed 09 Sep 2015
Hello, this is the International Space Station
In a first for the Space Boffins podcast - an interview with astronauts in space! NASA's Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko are on a year long mission on board the International Space Statio…
00:34:03 |
Tue 11 Aug 2015
Rocketing into Space
The Space Boffins celebrate their 4th year producing monthly podcasts in - aptly - a British rocket lab. Richard Hollingham joins engineer Adam Baker at the University of Kingston to discuss recent r…
00:41:02 |
Sun 12 Jul 2015
How to Fly a Space Shuttle
In a Space Boffins special - Sue Nelson meets the first female Space Shuttle Commander, Eileen Collins. The retired astronaut - one of NASA's most experienced - reveals the challenges of flying the S…
00:21:54 |
Tue 09 Jun 2015
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
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