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Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists

The Naked Scientists

Naked Astronomy: the Naked Scientists' Astronomy and Space Science Podcast - audio that's out of this world...

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231 episodes
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Feb 10, 2020 · 36 min
Hubble, TRUTHS and space Law
Recorded live at European Astrofest 2020, space law, lunar ownership and the James Webb Space Telescope...
Jan 10, 2020 · 41 min
Robot Arms and Space Toilets
Shuttle astronaut Mike Mullane recounts stories of space sexism, toilets, and M'n'Ms...
Dec 24, 2019 · 38 min
2020 State of the Universe Address
On the tenth anniversary of Naked Astronomy, physicist Ben McAllister asks what's changed in astronomy over the last decade?
Dec 13, 2019
Glove Actually and the Sew Sisters
Seamstresses to the stars: the team who made Neil Armstrong's spacesuit
Nov 10, 2019 · 52 min
Moving to Mars
What would a house on Mars look like?
Oct 15, 2019 · 44 min
Cosmic Girl - from California to Cornwall
Virgin Orbit, Sweden's contribution to space, and an interview with the world's first spacewalker...
Sep 10, 2019 · 44 min
Boffins on Mars
The Boffins learn how to keep Mars safe from Earth-bugs. Plus: two Mars rovers, and a quarantine facility...
Jul 10, 2019 · 56 min
Apollo 11 Special (Part 2)
Continuing the anniversary celebration - and featuring the only woman in launch control for Apollo 11...
Jun 9, 2019 · 55 min
Apollo 11 Special (Part 1)
The Boffins celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon landings...
May 15, 2019 · 30 min
Remarkable Women: A hidden history
Sue Nelson interviews two remarkable women: Hidden Figure Christine Darden and Mercury 13 legend, Wally Funk.
Apr 9, 2019 · 47 min
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 Saturn V replacement the new SLS or...
Mar 11, 2019 · 30 min
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 physicist and comedian Dr Fran Day to...
Feb 11, 2019 · 29 min
Astrofest Live!
Space Boffins have a stellar line-up of guests at Astrofest 2019...
Jan 16, 2019 · 39 min
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 Richard Hollingham are in Milton Keynes where...
Dec 13, 2018 · 50 min
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 podcast has a lunar theme. Recorded at...
Nov 12, 2018 · 30 min
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 works once a week - Space Boffins...
Oct 9, 2018 · 28 min
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. Thousands of people travel from across...
Sep 10, 2018 · 27 min
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 system - the most complicated satellite...
Aug 9, 2018 · 42 min
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 commercial space race for launching small...
Jul 9, 2018 · 45 min
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 Ariane 6 launchpad being built at the European...