Artemis II: 7. A family photo
13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II
BBC
9.5 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
With the toilet venting problem endangering the spacecraft Integrity’s Michelin rating, BBC Science Editor Rebecca Morelle drops by to update us on the unmentionables. The team answer more listeners questions; what do we mean by zero-g, and will there ever be permanent relay satellites around the moon to prevent the forthcoming communications blackout?
Tim Peake, Kristin Fisher and Maggie Aderin discuss the impact on mission architecture that the plurality of commercial launch providers are having in this new space race.
The Artemis II crew have also been sending down more of their photographs of Earth and the growing Moon from Integrity, the Orion spacecraft. With more and more talk on the mission becoming camera related, photographic restoration specialist and bestseller “Apollo Remastered” author Andy Saunders joins Tim, Maggie and Kristin to discuss what we can learn from these pictures and how photography has changed since Nasa’s early space programs.
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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| 0:39.7 | Welcome to 13 Minutes presents Artemis 2 from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:45.4 | I'm astronaut Timpeak and this is episode 7 approaching Flight Day 5. |
| 0:51.5 | And I'm space scientist Maggi Adairing. |
| 0:54.4 | We're following the progress of the first crude mission around the moon in more than 50 years, |
| 0:59.7 | with a new episode every day. |
| 1:02.4 | It technically will work with number one right now, |
| 1:04.6 | but we just want to keep the tanks half full right now |
| 1:07.0 | until we figure out what's going on with the vent line. |
| 1:10.0 | Absolutely, it's still |
| 1:10.9 | go for number two. And as far as the collapsible contingency urine devices, each crew |
| 1:17.5 | member has two of those. Oh dear, sounds like toilet trouble. And as ever, space journalist, |
| 1:22.9 | Kristen Fisher is joining us. And you flew somewhere yesterday, Kristen. Where are you talking to us |
| 1:27.3 | from? |
| 1:27.8 | I did. Hello, Tim and Maggie. I'm now back in my home studio in Washington, D.C., back from Florida. |
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