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🗓️ 6 March 2025
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1:36.0 | Getting astronauts back on the moon came one small step closer this week as a private mission landed a spacecraft on the lunar surface, the first to do so upright. |
1:49.0 | Al Khan, she'd engineer on ops. You'd like to land it. We're on the moon. Mr. Space himself, Elon Musk, has been at the center of a row at one of the world's most |
1:55.1 | esteemed scientific institutions. And a new study has found a link between the quality of a man's sperm and his |
2:04.5 | longevity. So we're and picking three science stories that have caught our eye this week. |
2:14.1 | From The Guardian, I'm Madeleine Finlay, and this is Science Weekly. |
2:24.4 | Ian, we're starting this week with a pretty significant milestone in moon exploration. |
2:30.9 | This was something called Blue Ghost Mission 1. Tell me about it. Yeah, so the Blue Ghost |
2:36.7 | Land is built and operated by Firefly Aerospace. They're a Texas-based firm. And it touched |
2:42.5 | down just after 8.30 a.m. on Sunday, UK time in an area of the moon called the Mayor Chrysium, |
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