Artemis II: Trailer: The new mission to the Moon
13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II
BBC
9.5 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
The countdown is on to 13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II, following Nasa’s mission to loop around the Moon. We’ll have an Artemis II episode every day. Nasa is hoping to return to the Moon for the first time in more than half a century. The story of Artemis II will be told by space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock, British astronaut Tim Peake, and US space journalist Kristin Fisher. Strap yourself in for another epic journey from the BBC’s space podcast, 13 Minutes. The Artemis II mission aims to send four astronauts – on a spacecraft called Orion - to loop around the Moon. They plan to go further from Earth than any human in history. Orion’s crew is scheduled to be Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen. 13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II will begin around two days before the launch.
Theme music by Hans Zimmer and Christian Lundberg and produced by Russell Emanuel, for Bleeding Fingers Music.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | And as we leave the moon and tours literal, we leave as we came, and God willing, as we shall return, with peace and in hope. |
| 0:21.6 | For mankind. |
| 0:23.6 | Godspeed to crew of Apollo 17. |
| 0:27.6 | It's more than half a century since anyone went to the moon. |
| 0:32.6 | The Apollo missions came to an end in 1972. |
| 0:36.6 | But now humans are set to return. |
| 0:41.3 | If all goes to plan, sometimes soon, NASA's Artemis 2 mission will send four astronauts to loop around the moon. |
| 0:52.3 | I got to get out of your way. |
| 0:55.0 | Hopefully they'll go further from Earth than any human in history. |
| 1:01.0 | Okay. |
| 1:02.0 | And if humans are returning to missions around the moon, well, the BBC Space Podcast 13 minutes... |
| 1:10.0 | ...14, 13, 12 13 minutes has to return to. |
| 1:13.2 | 13 minutes is coming back, with 13 Minutes Presents, Artemis 2. |
| 1:20.0 | 3, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1,000. We have come in, we have to have 2, 5,000, 5.m. I'm making a I'm Maggie Adirondon. |
| 1:39.3 | I love telling you the story of the space shuttle. |
| 1:42.3 | And now I'm going to be bringing you a space story in real time as it happens. |
| 1:50.0 | Every day for around two weeks, we'll have the latest news and we'll get to understand the |
| 1:56.0 | details of the mission and we'll hear from the people who are making it happen. |
| 2:00.0 | We have thousands of people that have brought us to this moment. |
| 2:03.6 | The thousands of people that have been working near 24-7 preparing us for this rollout, |
| 2:06.6 | the thousands of people across the country that trained and prepared this crew to undertake this mission, |
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