Artemis II: 5. No going back
13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II
BBC
9.5 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The loop round the Moon target is confirmed by the last major engine burn of the mission. It’s the first time the European Service Module engine has been used this way.
Sian Cleaver of Airbus Defence and Space, who has been central to the construction of the service module joins Tim, Maggie and Kristin to talk about flapping solar panels and future, even more ambitious, Artemis missions.
Season 4 theme music by Hans Zimmer and Christian Lundberg and produced by Russell Emanuel, for Bleeding Fingers Music.
13 Minutes Presents Artemis Two 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
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.3 | Their company's success helped build a nation. |
| 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, |
| 0:22.6 | would simply not be here. Inheritance, Samsung, explores the real-life dramas of the Lee family |
| 0:28.3 | and their company. They are the equivalent of royalty. Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.7 | Music Sounds. |
| 0:46.7 | Welcome to 13 Minutes presents from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:49.9 | I'm astronaut Tim Peake and this is episode five, |
| 0:53.3 | nearing flight day 3. |
| 0:56.1 | And space scientist Maggie Adairing, we're following the progress of the first crude mission around the moon in more than 50 years with a new episode every day. |
| 1:06.5 | 10 seconds until trans lunar injection burns start. |
| 1:10.7 | Integrity, good engine, good control. We have the start of the trans lunar injection burns start. Integrity, good engine, good control. |
| 1:12.6 | We have the start of the trans lunar injection burn that will send the crew around the moon, |
| 1:16.6 | the first humans to do so in over 50 years. |
| 1:19.6 | Velocity of the spacecraft ticking up, now over 23,900 miles per hour. |
| 1:26.6 | Integrity looks like a good burn. We're confirming. |
| 1:30.3 | Orion, now 520 miles away from Earth. |
| 1:33.3 | Just five minutes ago, we were only 115 miles above Earth's surface. |
| 1:38.3 | That distance will continue to increase as we are now on a trajectory to fly around the moon |
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