Space Boffins, from the Naked Scientists

Space Boffins, from the Naked Scientists

106 episodes

Publishing monthly, Space Boffins brings you cutting edge conversation and debate about the past, present and future of space science.

Podcasts

Frank Borman - Apollo Legend

Published: Dec. 18, 2023, 2:22 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 4 seconds

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Brits in Space!

Published: Oct. 30, 2023, 7:49 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 4 seconds

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Shuttle Blankets and Space Burials

Published: Oct. 8, 2023, 8:29 a.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 34 seconds

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Gui Bluford, and the end of ESA's Aeolus

Published: Aug. 28, 2023, 1:50 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 22 seconds

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Space junk, giant claws and dark skies

Published: July 28, 2023, 8:04 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 31 seconds

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Space broadcast legend and 20 years at Mars

Published: June 19, 2023, 12:11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 20 seconds

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Hitchin to Houston: NASA's new science head

Published: May 2, 2023, 9:49 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes

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Juice to Jupiter and forgotten space shuttles

Published: March 22, 2023, 8:12 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 59 seconds

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Space Toilets and the New Guys

Published: March 1, 2023, 11:36 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 14 seconds

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Mike Massimino and Meet the Minister

Published: Feb. 6, 2023, 10:43 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 39 seconds

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NASA's Dr Z

Published: Dec. 21, 2022, 9:28 a.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 53 seconds

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Cute Mars Rovers

Published: Dec. 5, 2022, 7:59 a.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 6 seconds

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Last Man on the Moon: BONUS EPISODE

Published: Nov. 15, 2022, 8:58 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 56 seconds

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Moon Trees

Published: Oct. 30, 2022, 10:11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 40 seconds

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Space Tyranny!

Published: Sept. 30, 2022, 9:21 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 8 seconds

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Apollo Remastered

Published: Aug. 27, 2022, 4:39 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 50 seconds

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Poppy Northcutt and Launch UK

Published: July 3, 2022, 8:25 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 1 second

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Lessons from an Astronaut

Published: May 27, 2022, 7:09 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 55 seconds

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Return to the Moon

Published: April 25, 2022, 7:48 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 3 seconds

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Do we need astronauts?

Published: March 1, 2022, 8:49 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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Fiery Worlds and go for Mars

Published: Jan. 28, 2022, 12:57 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 54 seconds

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Flowers in Space

Published: Dec. 15, 2021, 10:06 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 45 seconds

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James Webb and astronaut Jessica Meir

Published: Nov. 22, 2021, 10:53 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 28 seconds

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BepiColombo lobster eyes and Apollo legends

Published: Nov. 1, 2021, 8:05 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 35 seconds

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Europe leads the space station

Published: Sept. 10, 2021, 8:49 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 34 seconds

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Space Station Commander

Published: Aug. 12, 2021, 10:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds

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Wally Funk Heads for Space

Published: July 13, 2021, 9:36 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 42 seconds

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Mission to Europa

Published: June 14, 2021, 7:53 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 54 seconds

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Britain's First Astronaut

Published: May 14, 2021, 7:47 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 12 seconds

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Celebrating 60 years of human spaceflight

Published: April 9, 2021, 6:43 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 52 seconds

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Perseverance on Mars

Published: March 11, 2021, 6:03 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 35 seconds

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Space Zombies

Published: Feb. 11, 2021, 9:14 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 10 seconds

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China on the Moon

Published: Jan. 13, 2021, 2:24 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 38 seconds

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Tim Peake Reveals All

Published: Dec. 15, 2020, 2:26 a.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 43 seconds

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Asteroids and Artemis

Published: Nov. 17, 2020, 10:41 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 55 seconds

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Space Station Special

Published: Oct. 14, 2020, 9:46 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 2 seconds

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America's first space station

Published: Sept. 17, 2020, 9:03 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 57 seconds

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Space Boffins celebrate their century

Published: Aug. 12, 2020, 1:21 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 11 seconds

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2020 Missions to Mars

Published: July 14, 2020, 5:34 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 19 seconds

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Splashdown!

Published: June 15, 2020, 10:08 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 51 seconds

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Maiden Flight

Published: May 10, 2020, 8:31 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 1 second

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The Loneliest Human: Space Boffins Special

Published: May 1, 2020, 9:23 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 30 seconds

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Cubesats, Hubble and Apollo 13 Trouble

Published: April 14, 2020, 9:23 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 14 seconds

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Solar Orbiter, stamps and exoplanets

Published: March 10, 2020, 6:24 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 4 seconds

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Hubble, TRUTHS and space Law

Published: Feb. 10, 2020, 9:11 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 38 seconds

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Robot Arms and Space Toilets

Published: Jan. 10, 2020, 1:55 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 21 seconds

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Glove Actually and the Sew Sisters

Published: Dec. 13, 2019, 12:09 p.m.
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Moving to Mars

Published: Nov. 10, 2019, 5:21 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 25 seconds

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Cosmic Girl - from California to Cornwall

Published: Oct. 15, 2019, 12:38 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 7 seconds

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Boffins on Mars

Published: Sept. 10, 2019, 9:10 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 34 seconds

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Lunar Heritage and Lost Meteorites

Published: Aug. 10, 2019, 11 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 56 seconds

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Apollo 11 Special (Part 2)

Published: July 10, 2019, 11 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 59 seconds

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Apollo 11 Special (Part 1)

Published: June 9, 2019, 11 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 29 seconds

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Remarkable Women: A hidden history

Published: May 15, 2019, 11 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 28 seconds

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Giant Rockets to the Moon

Published: April 9, 2019, 11 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 41 seconds

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Spacecraft Reunited

Published: March 11, 2019, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 42 seconds

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Astrofest Live!

Published: Feb. 11, 2019, midnight
Duration: 29 minutes 27 seconds

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Flying hotdogs

Published: Jan. 16, 2019, midnight
Duration: 39 minutes 42 seconds

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Mission to the Moon

Published: Dec. 13, 2018, midnight
Duration: 50 minutes 1 second

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Don't call me Fruit Loops!

Published: Nov. 12, 2018, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 33 seconds

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Space Boffins Live ESA Special

Published: Oct. 9, 2018, 11 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 33 seconds

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Spy Satellite Special

Published: Sept. 10, 2018, 11 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 50 seconds

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Space Boffins Blast Off!

Published: Aug. 9, 2018, 11 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 14 seconds

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Rockets in the Jungle

Published: July 9, 2018, 11 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 49 seconds

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Magnificent Mercury: BepiColombo

Published: June 9, 2018, 11 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 52 seconds

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Sampling An Asteroid

Published: May 10, 2018, 11 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 9 seconds

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Water on Mars

Published: April 9, 2018, 11 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 17 seconds

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Killer Asteroids

Published: March 12, 2018, midnight
Duration: 42 minutes 50 seconds

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Space, Boffins & Rock Stars

Published: Feb. 9, 2018, midnight
Duration: 47 minutes 22 seconds

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Zero G

Published: Jan. 10, 2018, midnight
Duration: 43 minutes 6 seconds

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Space Highlights of 2017

Published: Dec. 11, 2017, midnight
Duration: 44 minutes 40 seconds

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How to Leave the Planet

Published: Nov. 10, 2017, midnight
Duration: 49 minutes 28 seconds

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Space Boffins Explore ESTEC

Published: Oct. 9, 2017, 11 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 18 seconds

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Cassini's Grand Finale

Published: Sept. 9, 2017, 11 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 52 seconds

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Extraterrestrial Humans

Published: Aug. 9, 2017, 11 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 42 seconds

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Mission To Mercury

Published: July 9, 2017, 11 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 7 seconds

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Space Alien Special

Published: May 9, 2017, 11 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 12 seconds

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Mission Control

Published: April 9, 2017, 11 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 21 seconds

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Space Tomatoes in Urine

Published: March 10, 2017, midnight
Duration: 41 minutes 16 seconds

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Space Boffins at Astrofest

Published: Feb. 10, 2017, midnight
Duration: 39 minutes 52 seconds

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Double Hubble

Published: Jan. 10, 2017, midnight
Duration: 46 minutes 55 seconds

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The Best of Space Boffins

Published: Dec. 10, 2016, midnight
Duration: 44 minutes 50 seconds

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X15: To Infinity and Beyond!

Published: Nov. 14, 2016, midnight
Duration: 39 minutes 40 seconds

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Roving Over Mars

Published: Oct. 10, 2016, midnight
Duration: 41 minutes 41 seconds

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Nursing NASA's Astronauts

Published: Sept. 9, 2016, 11 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 58 seconds

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From The Blue Dot Festival

Published: Aug. 9, 2016, 11 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 34 seconds

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Jupiter's Juno Mission

Published: July 9, 2016, 11 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 59 seconds

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Hot from Spacefest

Published: June 9, 2016, 11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 55 seconds

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Have you been mis-sold time?

Published: May 9, 2016, 11 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 20 seconds

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Riding on a Space Sofa

Published: April 9, 2016, 11 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 21 seconds

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Buzz Aldrin and his master plan for Mars

Published: March 10, 2016, midnight
Duration: 24 minutes 7 seconds

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Russian Lunar Rovers and Floating Number Twos

Published: Feb. 10, 2016, midnight
Duration: 42 minutes 55 seconds

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Surgery in Space

Published: Jan. 10, 2016, midnight
Duration: 39 minutes 22 seconds

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Christmas in Space

Published: Dec. 10, 2015, 10:59 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 43 seconds

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Gravity and Guitars with Tim Peake

Published: Nov. 10, 2015, midnight
Duration: 36 minutes 58 seconds

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The First Woman in Space

Published: Oct. 9, 2015, 11 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes

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Done and Dusted: What's Next for Rosetta?

Published: Sept. 9, 2015, 11 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 24 seconds

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Hello, this is the International Space Station

Published: Aug. 11, 2015, 11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 3 seconds

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Rocketing into Space

Published: July 12, 2015, 11 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 2 seconds

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How to Fly a Space Shuttle

Published: June 9, 2015, 11 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 54 seconds

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Rosetta: Six Months Later

Published: May 9, 2015, 11 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 29 seconds

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Out of this World: Britain's history in space

Published: April 15, 2015, 11 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 39 seconds

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All Systems Go: NASA's new giant rocket

Published: March 10, 2015, midnight
Duration: 37 minutes 36 seconds

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Recovering Beagle 2 from Mars

Published: Feb. 10, 2015, midnight
Duration: 33 minutes 51 seconds

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Space Exploration in 2015

Published: Jan. 10, 2015, midnight
Duration: 37 minutes 30 seconds

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Orion: the first step to Mars?

Published: Dec. 10, 2014, midnight
Duration: 36 minutes 27 seconds

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Space: triumph and tragedy

Published: Nov. 14, 2014, midnight
Duration: 38 minutes 52 seconds

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ESTEC: The heart of the European Space Agency

Published: Oct. 9, 2014, 11 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 2 seconds

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The Spacewalk from Hell

Published: Sept. 9, 2014, 11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 21 seconds

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The Last Man on the Moon

Published: Aug. 9, 2014, 11 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 21 seconds

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Rescuing astronauts from space

Published: July 9, 2014, 11 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 37 seconds

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Drowning in Space

Published: June 9, 2014, 11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 2 seconds

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Virtual Rides into Space

Published: May 9, 2014, 11 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 42 seconds

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The Mars Yard

Published: April 9, 2014, 11 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 31 seconds

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Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Published: March 10, 2014, midnight
Duration: 35 minutes 55 seconds

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Exo Mars and Crowd-funded SpaceCraft

Published: Feb. 10, 2014, midnight
Duration: 29 minutes 54 seconds

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Chris Hadfield: How to fix a space toilet

Published: Jan. 10, 2014, midnight
Duration: 26 minutes 17 seconds

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The future of lunar space missions

Published: Dec. 10, 2013, midnight
Duration: 38 minutes 1 second

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Looking forward to ExoMars

Published: Nov. 8, 2013, midnight
Duration: 39 minutes 31 seconds

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Sue in a Centrifuge

Published: Oct. 9, 2013, 11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 45 seconds

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Missions to Mars

Published: Sept. 9, 2013, 11 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 35 seconds

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NOAA's Space Weather Centre

Published: Aug. 9, 2013, 11 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 26 seconds

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Landing on a Comet

Published: July 9, 2013, 11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 36 seconds

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Britain's First Official Astronaut

Published: June 9, 2013, 11 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 44 seconds

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Dodging Space Harpoons

Published: May 9, 2013, 11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 13 seconds

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Solar Science and Space Planes

Published: April 9, 2013, 11 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 9 seconds

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The First Phone in Space

Published: March 10, 2013, midnight
Duration: 30 minutes 8 seconds

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Methane on Mars and Meeting Astronauts

Published: Feb. 10, 2013, midnight
Duration: 34 minutes 7 seconds

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Don't Panic! Keeping Your Cool in Space

Published: Jan. 10, 2013, midnight
Duration: 37 minutes 45 seconds

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Space Boffins on the ISS

Published: Dec. 10, 2012, midnight
Duration: 34 minutes 8 seconds

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Houston, we have a Podcast

Published: Nov. 10, 2012, midnight
Duration: 28 minutes 50 seconds

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Space Boffins Search for ET

Published: Oct. 9, 2012, 11 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 56 seconds

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Mars InSights, rings around Saturn and satellite docking games...

Published: Sept. 9, 2012, 11 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 53 seconds

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The First American Spacewalk

Published: Aug. 9, 2012, 11 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 45 seconds

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Work, rest and play: Mars and space tourism

Published: July 9, 2012, 11 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 55 seconds

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Introducing Space Boffins!

Published: June 9, 2012, 11 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 4 seconds

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