Artemis II: 9. Bye bye, fly-by
13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II
BBC
9.5 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
It’s been a busy 24 hours for the Artemis II crew. They have completed a lunar fly-by, surpassed the furthest distance humans have ever travelled from planet Earth, gone through a communications black out period, and witnessed a lunar eclipse.
Host space scientist Maggie Aderin is joined by space journalist Kristin Fisher who, like many of us, stayed up to watch the fly-by. And BBC News science editor Rebecca Morelle calls in from Houston to give us the latest from mission control. The first pictures back were published by Nasa just as this episode began recording.
And former BBC space correspondent Jonathan Amos joins the “13 minutes community”, giving his perspective on the historic mission and the events of the last 24 hrs.
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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| 0:13.5 | But who are the family behind one of the world's tech giants? |
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| 0:28.3 | and their company. They are the equivalent of royalty. Listen first on BBC Sounds. Welcome to 13 minutes presents, Artemis 2 from the BBC World Service. I'm space |
| 0:49.6 | scientist Maggie Adairn, and this is episode 9, approaching flight day 7. |
| 0:55.0 | And I'm space journalist Kristen Fisher, and we're following the progress of the first crewed mission around the moon in more than 50 years with a new episode every day. |
| 1:04.0 | The second one, and especially meaningful for this crew, is a number of years ago we started this journey in our close-knit astronaut family, |
| 1:13.8 | and we lost a loved one. And there's a feature in a really neat place on the moon, |
| 1:20.4 | and it is on the near-side, far-side boundary. In fact, it's just on the near side of that boundary. |
| 1:27.1 | And so at certain times of the moons transit around Earth, you can, we will be able to see this |
| 1:34.3 | from Earth. |
| 1:35.3 | And so we lost a loved one. |
| 1:37.3 | Her name was Carol. |
| 1:39.3 | The supposed to read, the mother of Katie and Ellie. |
| 1:47.0 | And if you want to find this one, you look at Glushko, and it's just to the northwest of that, |
| 1:54.0 | at the same latitude as Ome, and it's a bright spot on the moon. |
| 2:03.1 | And we would like to call it Carol. |
| 2:09.1 | And you spell that C-A-R-R-O-L-L. |
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