Artemis II: 11. Science surprises
13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II
BBC
9.5 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The Artemis II crew are getting ever closer to home and preparing for re-entry.
Hosts astronaut Tim Peake and space scientist Maggie Aderin are joined by space journalist Kristin Fisher, who shares the latest updates from the mission. Plus, we answer more of your burning questions.
And Dr Kelsey Young, lead science officer and lunar science lead for Artemis II, shares her excitement about the crew’s lunar observations so far. She tells us what she’s been surprised by, what new science we’ve already learnt, and how they trained the astronauts to become geologists.
You can get in touch with the 13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II team by emailing 13minutes@bbc.co.uk.
Season 4 theme music by Hans Zimmer and Christian Lundberg and produced by Russell Emanuel, for Bleeding Fingers Music.
13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II is a BBC Audio Science production for the BBC World Service.
Presenters: Tim Peake and Maggie Aderin Producers: Alex Mansfield and Sophie Ormiston Series editor: Martin Smith
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| 0:10.9 | The company is such a big part of Korea's economy. |
| 0:13.5 | But who are the family behind one of the world's tech giants? |
| 0:17.2 | They often say, look, we built the nation. |
| 0:19.2 | And without us, South Korea as it exists today, |
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| 0:28.3 | and their company. They are the BBC World Service. I'm astronaut Tim |
| 0:49.4 | Peak, and this is episode 11 approaching flight day 9. |
| 0:55.9 | And I'm space scientist Maggi Adairn. |
| 1:01.8 | We're following the progress of the first crew mission around the moon in more than 50 years, |
| 1:03.7 | with a new episode every day. |
| 1:08.4 | On the flywheel team, this is a great device. |
| 1:19.4 | We really enjoyed it in this small cabin. It's perfect, and it gave us a lot of good opportunity to get our heart rate up and also get some great resistance exercise. So we just wanted to shout out. A nice thank you. Here we go. |
| 1:28.3 | Hi, we do. Thanks, for her. Thank you guys. Thanks for the words and the cheers. |
| 1:40.3 | Well, that was the Artemis 2 crew completing their final sessions in Integrity's gymnasium and showing their appreciation for the engineers behind the flywheel exercise machine. I'm not sure I've ever got off the rowing machine and cheered to the manufacturers, but they're obviously very happy. |
| 1:46.9 | And of course, that is a huge piece of engineering there. |
| 1:49.6 | And we'll talk a bit more about that in detail. |
| 1:51.4 | But first, we're joined by space journalist Kristen Fisher. |
| 1:54.8 | Hello, Kristen. |
| 1:55.9 | Hi, Tim. |
| 1:56.6 | Hi, Maggie. |
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