Where's My Jetpack?
Will humans really colonise Mars one day? Will I ever ride my own hoverboard like Marty McFly? How long will it be until we can book holidays in space? Where's my jetpack?
Back in the 1980s, TV and films promised us everything from jetpacks to flying cars and holidays in space - so what happened to those Space Age dreams? Every week, join space journalist and author, Sarah Cruddas and broadcaster Luke Moore for Where's My Jetpack? Each episode, we look into a different piece of retrofuturistic technology that never was, to find out if these brilliant inventions are still just science fiction or, by looking in the right places, may be just around the corner.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 11
- Years Active
- 2022
Where's My... New Planetary Home?
Sarah and Luke return for the final episode of the series, as we search for a home beyond Earth.
Life on other planets has been a staple of science fiction lore for decades, but overcoming the astrono…
Where's My... Interplanetary Neighbour?
Today, we tackle the definitive science fiction question of our time: are we alone?
Sarah and Luke set out to discover who - or what - might be observing us from afar. We find that, while the chance o…
Where's My... Space Mine?
It seems to be the doomed plot of every disaster movie in space, but it's so much more than that: today, we're off searching for the fuel of the future.
Sarah and Luke discover that space mining repre…
Where's My... Mars Visit?
Decades of retrofuturustic dreaming, now Elon Musk and NASA: visiting Mars has always seemed just of our reach. But how far away is humans' first visit?
Sarah and Luke answer one of science's longstan…
Where's My... Reusable Rocket?
Sometimes, scientific discovery can just be for the sheer fun of it. Other times, it may well define the future of our species: today's episode focuses on the latter.
Sarah and Luke look into why we'v…
Where's My... Space Hotel?
Pack your bags and strap yourselves in. It's time to decide whether a trip into the cosmos remains science fiction or if it might one day become science prediction.
Sarah and Luke look into the pract…
Where’s My… Flying Car?
If previous generations could’ve had one single piece of retrofuturistic technology, it’d probably be the flying car.
Luke and Sarah try to make those dreams a reality as we find that, for the first …
Where's My... Hoverboard?
Someone get Marty McFly, because today's episode is right up his futuristic street!
Join Sarah and Luke as they search for an iconic piece of science fiction, the hoverboard. While the technology is a…
Where's My... Moon Base?
We're back with another episode of Where's My Jetpack, the podcast that straps a rocket to your retrofuturistic dreams and blasts them into orbit!
Today, Luke and Sarah find out that early scientific …
Where's My... Jetpack?
In our first episode of this brand new series, Sarah Cruddas and Luke Moore search for *the* iconic Space Age invention: the jetpack.
From unwieldy early iterations to modern imitations that still rem…
Trailer: Where's My Jetpack? | Launching Thursday 24th Feb
Back in the 1980s, TV and films promised us everything from jetpacks to flying cars and holidays in space - so what happened to those Space Age dreams?
Join space journalist and author, Sarah Cruddas…