Space Exploration
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2024 is an exciting year for lunar exploration. For Inside Science this week Marnie Chesterton investigates the planned missions to the Moon over the next twelve months.
It\\u2019s been more than fifty years since the last manned mission to the Moon was completed. But that\\u2019s about to change with NASA\\u2019s upcoming Artemis II mission. This will not only be the first manned lunar flyby of the Moon since 1972, but also the first mission to have a woman and person of colour on board. Reid Wiseman, Commander of the Artemis II manned mission explains more about the mission and even lets us into a few secrets about what culinary delights await astronauts in space.
But it\\u2019s not just NASA going to the Moon in 2024. China\\u2019s Chang\\u2019e 6 mission is lifting off in May, aiming to collect samples of rock from the far side of the moon. Quentin Parker, Director of the Laboratory for Space Research at the University of Hong Kong has a unique insight into China\\u2019s mission and has been following progress.
Presenter: Marnie Chesterton \\nProducers: Hannah Fisher \\nEditor: Richard Collings \\nProduction Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth\\u202f
BBC Inside Science is produced in collaboration with the Open University.
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