Artemis II astronauts fly around the Moon
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The Artemis II astronauts have travelled farther from Earth than any human in history and successfully looped around the far side of the Moon. The NASA crew is now on its way back home after taking photographs of the lunar surface and witnessing a solar eclipse. Also: Donald Trump dismisses concerns that the US targeting civilian infrastructure in Iran could be a war crime; the BBC gets special access to a siezed scam compound in Myanmar; Albanian environmentalists protest against Ivanka Trump's plans for a luxury island resort; and fancy a curling match for a night out?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.5 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.5 | I'm Will Chalk, and in the early hours of Tuesday, the 7th of April, these are our main stories. |
| 0:18.2 | The crew of Artemis II are on their way home and have been talking about |
| 0:22.1 | their mission to the far side of the moon. And we saw sites that no human has ever seen before, |
| 0:27.6 | not even in Apollo, and that was amazing for us. President Trump claims Iranians want the US |
| 0:33.3 | to bomb their country and has repeated his threat to destroy civilian infrastructure. |
| 0:38.4 | We'll hear how Iranians are preparing for the possibility of that happening. |
| 0:44.6 | Also in this podcast, nine police officers in India are sentenced to death for fatally assaulting |
| 0:51.0 | a father and son in custody. And this is very exciting for us. |
| 0:55.3 | We've done a lot in the sport, but seeing a professional league come about within my career span is quite exciting for me, I think. |
| 1:02.7 | The first ever professional curling league gets underway in Canada. |
| 1:18.3 | It's been a big few hours for NASA with a first for humanity as four astronauts on board Artemis II looped around the far side of the moon and in the process travelled more than 400,000 |
| 1:24.9 | kilometres from Earth. The crew were out of touch with NASA headquarters for nearly 45 |
| 1:30.1 | minutes as they went behind the moon. This is the first trip there in more than 50 years and it's |
| 1:35.4 | in preparation for a potential lunar landing by 2028. The crew have been taking pictures and recordings |
| 1:42.4 | during their seven-hour fly-by and they are now on their way home. |
| 1:46.8 | President Trump congratulated the four astronauts and asked what the most memorable part of their trip had been. |
| 1:52.4 | Reed Wiseman is the commander of the mission. |
| 1:55.1 | I have to tell you, as we came around the near side of the moon, seeing all the sites that we've seen from Earth |
| 2:01.1 | for all of our lives, but we're seeing them from a different perspective. |
| 2:04.3 | And we saw sites, Oriental, sites that no human has ever seen before, not even in Apollo, |
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