Space Boffins

The award-winning space science, exploration and astronomy podcast from Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham...

30 May 2026

What are NASA's plans for a lunar settlement?

05 April 2026

Richard Hollingham is on the ground to watch the rocket lift off...

22 March 2026

Plus, we hear from the producer/directors of the new Project Hail Mary film...

26 February 2026

NASA's plans for Artemis II, and controlling a Moon-bound spacecraft...

03 December 2025

We get emotional in a Wally Funk themed exhibition...

05 November 2025

The team pay a visit to Astrobotic, in Pittsburgh...

03 October 2025

How Antarctica is a mock-up for Mars life...

04 September 2025

An Apollo legend celebrated, and insights into the developing British rocket industry

06 August 2025

Plus, the inside story on a jet pack used by a NASA astronaut...

28 June 2025

Plus, will China now get to the Moon first?

29 May 2025

Is the forge of the future destined to be in orbit?

10 May 2025

Space politics and funding, phoning home, and the space shuttle are this month's fertile topics...

07 April 2025

It’s all about returning to the Moon and protecting the Earth...

26 February 2025

How to protect the planet, and why Mars habitation will be hard...

27 January 2025

Reporting on rocket launches, saving Skylab, and Soviet era space tech...

03 December 2024

The Space Boffins probe the big question of whether we've been visited by aliens...

02 October 2024

How societies and cities will emerge on the red planet once human colonisation is underway...

28 August 2024

Plus, how people with physical disabilities could become astronauts...

11 July 2024

Was the Space Shuttle fundamentally flawed, the future of the International Space Station, and we talk Star Trek...

29 April 2024

And the BepiColombo mission to Mercury, which reaches its destination next year...

29 March 2024

The first soft Moon landing since 1972, and powering a future Moonbase...