Artemis II: 12. Please return to your seats
13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II
BBC
9.5 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The Artemis II mission hurtles towards re-entry and splashdown. The 13 Minutes crew run through the schedule that includes 28,864 mph, searing heat, 11 parachutes, and 3.9g forces.
Long-time Nasa scientist Dr Phil Metzger talks about the issue of AVCOAT – the ablative coating that will shield the capsule’s flat underside. And we also talk about his work at Nasa’s “Swamp Works” where much was studied about building structures on the moon for a moonbase.
Season 4 theme music by Hans Zimmer and Christian Lundberg and produced by Russell Emanuel, for Bleeding Fingers Music.
You can get in touch with the 13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II team by emailing 13minutes@bbc.co.uk.
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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| 0:36.5 | Welcome to 13 Minutes Presents Artemis 2 from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Ashinor Timpique and this is episode 12 approaching flight day 10. |
| 0:47.8 | And I'm space scientist Maggie Adairn. |
| 0:49.9 | We're following the progress of the first crude mission around the moon in more than 50 years, |
| 0:55.3 | with a new episode every day. |
| 1:03.9 | Integrity crew, when you are able, could you give us an indicator, an indication if you are bumping up against or touching the smoke detector in any way |
| 1:14.0 | when you're over in that area of the cabin? |
| 1:15.9 | We had a towel over there, but we don't think we're bumping into it. |
| 1:20.2 | Give us a couple more seconds because we need to grab a few more pictures, and then we'll try to get away from it for a minute. |
| 1:29.0 | And we don't have any concern. You guys can stay over there. Keep taking your photos. We're |
| 1:33.0 | just curious. Continue. |
| 1:35.4 | All right. Sounds good, Jenny. Yeah, we caught a view of Earth in window one and now we're |
| 1:42.4 | completely distracted for a little bit. You guys are looking for it. |
| 1:46.0 | Thanks. Yeah, we love that. We were just noticing it's really cool actually. In the data the |
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